117 Wash. 2d 479 - State v. Blair’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
86 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably State v. Taylor (1996), State v. O'HARA (2009)
86 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Graves v. United States · State v. Caron · Bersani v. United States Environmental Protection Agency · Commonwealth v. Domanski
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“For a witness to be "available" to one party to an action, there must have been such a community of interest between the party and the witness, or the party must have so superior an opportunity for knowledge of a witness, as in ordinary experience would have made it reasonably probable that the witness would have been called to testify for such party except for the fact that his testimony would have been damaging.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Reed · State v. Reed““[T]hose people weren’t brought in to tell you those were gambling debts for you to evaluate the contents of their testimony or their demeanor.” “. . . [A]sk yourselves that if this were true that these were gambling debts and you were in the defendant’s shoes and you knew who all these people were ... wouldn’t the first thing that would cross your mind be to bring in the friends that he says he loaned money to, say, ‘Joe, I need you to come in’? “And if Joe doesn’t want to come in, he’d want to subpoena him and Sam and Fred and Paul and everybody else that’s on that list and say, ‘Well, what’s this for?’ ‘Well, it’s a gambling debt.’ And if he didn’t do that, couldn’t you infer that their answer wouldn’t have been, ‘It was a loan. It’s a gambling debt’?””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sundberg“Under this doctrine, where a party fails to call a witness to provide testimony that would properly be a part of the case and is within the control of the party in whose interest it would be natural to produce that testimony, and the party fails to do so, the jury may draw an inference that the testimony would be unfavorable to that party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.