21 Wash. App. 855 - State v. Forrester’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably 121 Wash. 2d 22 - State v. Riley (1993), 93 Wash. 2d 823 - State v. Cunningham (1980)
3 federal appellate · 58 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 Gregg v. Georgia · Lockett v. Ohio · Woodson v. North Carolina · Coker v. Georgia · Roberts v. Louisiana
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“belonging to one's self ... secret ... intended only for the persons involved (a conversation) ... holding a confidential relationship to something ... a secret message: a private communication ... secretly: not open or in public.”
21 later decisions quote this exact passage“"(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1) of this section, wire communications or conversations (a) of an emergency nature, such as the reporting of a fire, crime, or other disaster,. . . may be recorded with the consent of one party to the conversation."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"A person found guilty of aggravated murder in the first degree . . . shall be punished by the mandatory sentence of death." Laws of 1975, 2d Ex. Sess., ch. 9, § 2.”
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.