116 Wash. 2d 364 - State v. Earls’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently December 2019 · most notably State v. Thorne (1996), 117 Wash. 2d 263 - State v. Smith (1991)
62 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 · Johnson v. Zerbst · United States v. Wade · Edwards v. Arizona · Schmerber v. State of California
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[n]o person shall be compelled in any criminal case to give evidence against himself.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hager · State v. Radcliffe“[n]o person ... shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hager · State v. Easter“[A] waiver is valid as a matter of law once it is determined that a suspect was aware of his rights and the State's intention to use his statements against him, and his decision not to invoke those rights was uncoerced.”
1 later decision 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.