20 Wash. App. 489 - State v. Braxton’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently August 1998
16 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 64 Cal. 2d 159 - Ballard v. Superior Court of San Diego County · 89 Wash. 2d 613 - State v. Young · 87 Wash. 2d 829 - State v. Kroll · 84 Wash. 2d 90 - State v. Eller · 19 Wash. App. 107 - State v. Atkinson
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Rather than formulate a fixed rule in this matter we believe that discretion should repose in the trial judge to order a psychiatric examination of the complaining witness in a case involving a sex violation if the defendant presents a compelling reason for such an examination.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Filson
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.