24 Wash. App. 370 - State v. Irving’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently June 2013 · most notably 101 Wash. 2d 772 - State v. Coe (1984), 106 Wash. 2d 772 - State v. Smith (1986)
29 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 Alford v. State · Lovely v. United States · 40 Wash. 2d 18 - State v. Goebel · Meeks v. State · 57 Ala. App. 310 - Fisher v. State
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Mere similarity of crimes will not justify the introduction of other criminal acts under the rule. There must be something distinctive or unusual in the means employed in such crimes and the crime charged.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“We perceive the true test for the admissibility of evidence of other offenses is whether it is relevant and necessary to prove an essential ingredient of the crime charged. * * * Nevertheless, when the relevancy is reached merely by demonstrating the accused's bad character through his propensity to commit similar crimes, evidence of the other offenses is ordinarily inadmissible. In this latter case, the peg of relevancy is said to be obscured by the dirty linen hung upon it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he majority of jurisdictions and the better reasoned decisions hold that, when rape is the crime charged, detailed evidence of the defendant’s forceful rape or attempted rape of another woman on a prior occasion is inadmissible as substantive evidence to corroborate the proxecutrix’s claims of the defendant’s use of force and her lack of consent.”
2 later decisions 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.