124 Wash. 2d 467 - State v. Wittenbarger’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 103 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 106 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably 127 Wash. 2d 95 - State v. Gocken (1995), State v. Copeland (1996)
3 federal appellate · 103 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Agurs · California v. Trombetta · Arizona v. Youngblood · California v. Greenwood
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 106 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To comport with due process, the prosecution has a duty to disclose material exculpatory evidence to the defense and a related duty to preserve such evidence for use by the defense.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Smith · State v. Copeland“A showing that the evidence might have exonerated the defendant is not enough. In order to be considered "material exculpatory evidence," the evidence must both possess an exculpatory value that was apparent before it was destroyed and be of such a nature that the defendant would be unable to obtain comparable evidence by other reasonably available means.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Smith · State v. Copeland“[t]he defendant may introduce evidence refuting the accuracy and reliability of the test reading”
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.