111 Wash. 2d 124 - State v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
111 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 111 later decisions — most recently November 2021 · most notably State v. Brown (1997), 126 Wash. 2d 244 - State v. Powell (1995)
111 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Griffith v. Kentucky · Chevron Oil Co. v. Huson · Harris v. New York · Rideout v. United States
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 111 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“taking another's property by theft, ... involves dishonesty and ... [theft] crimes are per se admissible for impeachment purposes under ER 609(a)(2).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“For the purpose of attacking the credibility of a witness in a criminal or civil case, evidence that the witness has been convicted of a crime shall be admitted if elicited from the witness or established by public record during examination of the witness but only if the crime ... (2) involved dishonesty or false statement, regardless of the punishment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[W]e return to basics. . . . The term "dishonest" implies the act or practice of telling a he, or of cheating, deceiving, and stealing. Crimes of theft involve stealing, and are clearly encompassed within the term dishonest. . . . . . . The act of taking property is positively dishonest. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.