113 Wash. 2d 520 - State v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
93 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions — most recently March 2020 · most notably State v. Brown (1997), 126 Wash. 2d 244 - State v. Powell (1995)
93 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 Luce v. United States · 42 Cal. 3d 378 - People v. Collins · 103 Wash. 2d 249 - Orwick v. City of Seattle · 101 Wash. 2d 745 - State v. Laureano · 98 Wash. 2d 748 - State v. Pam
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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“this new construction of ER 609 is not based on the reports of those who drafted it but on passages from Webster's dictionary and the intuition of Justice Brachtenbach's opinion. By so doing, the opinion by Justice Brachtenbach would make no distinction for the credibility-driven purposes of ER 609(a)(2) between the person who steals a loaf of bread and the one who swindles his victims out of their savings. Further, by allowing the admission of crimes such as robbery, burglary, theft, and perhaps kidnapping under the per se standard of ER 609(a)(2), the opinion by Justice Brachtenbach effectively emasculates the balancing test in 609(a)(1).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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