28 Wash. App. 446 - State v. Springfield’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably 99 Wash. 2d 413 - State v. Vladovic (1983), 153 Wash. 2d 765 - State v. Freeman (2005)
28 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 Neil v. Biggers · Stovall v. Denno · Benton v. Maryland · 94 Wash. 2d 216 - State v. Green · 92 Wash. 2d 671 - State v. Johnson
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the opportunity of the witness to view the criminal at the time of the crime, the witness' degree of attention, the accuracy of his prior description of the criminal, the level of certainty demonstrated at the confrontation, and the time between the crime and the confrontation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“State was required to prove, as a preliminary matter, that defendants beat [the victim] (assault) in order to prove that they beat him to death (manslaughter)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Read“Where there is no cessation of the infliction of injury, there are not separate acts of violence which would support conviction of both robbery and assault.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Tanberg
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.