115 Wash. 2d 775 - State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 111 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 114 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably 125 Wash. 2d 782 - State v. Vangerpen (1995), State v. Ferrier (1998)
3 federal appellate · 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 · Terry v. Ohio · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Florida v. Royer · Michigan v. Long
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 114 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[I]f there is independent proof thereof, such confession may then be considered in connection therewith and the corpus delicti established by a combination of the independent proof and the confession,'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“"In assessing the sufficiency of the proof of the corpus delicti ..., [the reviewing court must] assume the truth of the State's evidence and all reasonable inferences therefrom in a light most favorable to the State." State v. Smith, 54 Wash.App. at 473, 774 P.2d 519 [ [5] ] (citing Corbett, at 571, 723 P.2d 1135 ; State v. Neslund, 50 Wash. App. 531, 544, 749 P.2d 725 , review denied, 110 Wash.2d 1025 (1988)). Corpus delicti "can be established by either direct or circumstantial evidence." State v. Lung, 70 Wash.2d 365, 371 , 423 P.2d 72 (1967).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[p]erhaps . . . it is more accurate to say that the corpus delicti embraces the fact that a crime has been committed by someone.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Brockob · State v. Pineda
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.