29 Wash. App. 513 - State v. Mulder’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently June 2009 · most notably 121 Wash. 2d 220 - State v. Janes (1993), State v. Heath (1998)
23 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. Wilkerson · 18 Cal. App. 3d 504 - People v. Jackson · People v. Henson · 90 Wash. 2d 808 - State v. Canaday · 89 Ill. App. 3d 803 - People v. Platter
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Doctors may testify] with reasonable probability that a particular injury or group of injuries to a child is not accidental or is not consistent with the explanation offered therefor but is instead the result of physical abuse by a person of mature strength.... . . . . The use of the term "battered child syndrome" by a physician does not, of course, necessarily indicate any wrongdoing by a particular defendant. People v. Jackson, [ 18 Cal.App.3d 504 , 95 Cal.Rptr. 919 (1971)]. Evidence must still be produced to establish that it was the defendant who caused the injuries in question. The trier of fact still must determine the weight to be given the expert's testimony.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“was admissible although, because of the emotional appeal of an evidentiary presentation using that term, its probative value must be carefully weighed against the potential prejudicial effect. The quoted testimony was not specifically offered in proof of a classic”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[e]vidence must still be produced to establish that it was the defendant who caused the injuries in question.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Tanner
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.