112 Wash. 2d 488 - State v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably 114 Wash. 2d 613 - State v. Swan (1990), 113 Wash. 2d 929 - Forbes v. City of Seattle (1990)
50 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 Carnegie v. United States · 106 Wash. 2d 54 - State v. Gunwall · 103 Wash. 2d 165 - State v. Ryan · 102 Wash. 2d 68 - Davis v. Globe MacHine Manufacturing Co. · 107 Wash. 2d 524 - Caruso v. LOCAL 690 INTERNL. BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The statute requires a preliminary determination "that the time, content, and circumstances of the statement provide sufficient indicia of reliability ...". It requires the child to testify at the proceedings, or to be unavailable, and does not alter the necessary showing of unavailability.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“alleviating the difficult problems of proof that often frustrate prosecutions for child sexual abuse.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[t]he statute's essential purposes should not be defeated by a stubborn insistence on corroboration that is impossible to obtain.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.