119 Wash. 2d 294 - State v. Ortiz’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
157 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 157 later decisions — most recently March 2020 · most notably 122 Wash. 2d 1 - Matter of Personal Restraint of Young (1993), 125 Wash. 2d 570 - State v. Gentry (1995)
157 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Agurs · Arizona v. Youngblood · Frye v. United States
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 157 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If scientific, technical, or other specialized knowledge will assist the trier of fact to understand the evidence or to determine a fact in issue, a witness qualified as an expert by knowledge, skill, experience, training, or education, may testify thereto in the form of an opinion or otherwise.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“unless a criminal defendant can show bad faith on the part of the police, failure to preserve potentially useful evidence does not constitute a denial of due process of law.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“`the mental process of thinking beforehand, deliberation, reflection, weighing or reasoning for a period of time, however, short.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Pirtle · State v. Allen
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.