2 Wash. App. 464 - State v. Peterson’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently September 2015
24 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 People v. Baldwin · 2 Wash. App. 241 - State v. Tate · State v. Moneymaker · 70 Wash. 2d 420 - State v. Barnett
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is fundamental that a defendant charged with commission of a crime should be given great latitude in the cross-examination of prosecution witnesses to show motive or credibility. . . . This is especially so in the prosecutions of sex crimes where, owing to natural instincts and laudable sentiments on the part of the jury, the usual circumstances of isolation of the parties involved at the commission of the offense and the understandable lack of objective corroborative evidence, the defendant is often disproportionately at the mercy of the complaining witness' testimony.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is fundamental that a defendant charged with commission of a crime should be given great latitude in the cross-examination of a prosecution witness to show motive or credibility.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Smith“[I]f you give me a break, I will go to the doctor”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. O'CONNOR
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.