25 Wash. 2d 319 - State v. Swan’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently December 2004
6 federal appellate · 12 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 State v. Bossio · State v. Catsampas · Ferris v. Todd
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]here inheres in this statute the mandatory provision that no inference of guilt shall arise from the failure of a wife to testify for or against her husband, or for a husband to testify for or against the wife. It follows that the full protective force of the statute is not secured if the silence of the wife be construed against the husband in a criminal action . . . [ 17 ]”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“In effect [counsel for the State] told the jury that appellant was guilty of concealing evidence which would be helpful to the state.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Carneh
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.