State v. FREEBRUG’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently May 2021
14 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 Wong Sun v. United States · United States v. Myers · 114 Wash. 2d 613 - State v. Swan · 126 Wash. 2d 244 - State v. Powell · 101 Wash. 2d 664 - State v. Rupe
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he probative value of evidence of flight "as circumstantial evidence of guilt depends upon the degree of confidence with which four inferences can be drawn: (1) from the defendant's behavior to flight; (2) from flight to consciousness of guilt; (3) from consciousness of guilt to consciousness of guilt concerning the crime charged; and (4) from consciousness of guilt concerning the crime charged to actual guilt of the crime charged."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Analytically, flight is an admission by conduct. Evidence of flight is admissible if it creates `a reasonable and substantive inference that defendant's departure from the scene was an instinctive or impulsive reaction to a consciousness of guilt or was a deliberate effort to evade arrest and prosecution.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“tends to be only marginally probative as to the ultimate issue of guilt or innocence[, so] the circumstance or inference of consciousness of guilt must be substantial and real, not speculative, conjectural, or fanciful.”
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.