30 Wash. App. 288 - State v. Eaton’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 2025
8 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 Chapman v. State of California · Simmons v. United States · McGautha v. California · Harrison v. United States · Brooks v. Tennessee
Most-quoted passages
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“[T]he probative value of expert medical testimony may be lessened when it is based on subjective symptoms and narrative statements given by a defendant after he has been charged with a crime. The assumption underlying ER 703, however, is that opposing counsel will forcefully bring that point to the jury’s attention during cross-examination of the expert. Jurors are quite aware that a criminal defendant may be motivated to fabricate a defense and are unlikely to be influenced unduly by an expert opinion that is shown to rest on questionable sources of information. Moreover, experienced forensic psychiatrists are equally aware of the danger of fabrication and are trained to detect untruthful answers to their questions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[Eaton’] s prior robbery conviction was revealed to the jury as a result of his taking the stand. ... In all likelihood, the jurors’ verdict depended greatly on their assessment of defendant’s credibility. A negative assessment of his credibility conceivably would have influenced the weight the jury gave to the opinion of Dr. Maletzky, defendant’s key witness. In these circumstances, we must conclude that the additional evidence placed before the jury as a result of the court’s error probably had an effect on the verdict.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The facts or data in the particular case upon which an expert bases an opinion or inference may be those perceived by or made known to the expert at or before the hearing. If of a type reasonably relied upon by experts in the particular field in forming opinions or inferences upon the subject, the facts or data need not be admissible in evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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