35 Wash. 2d 389 - State v. Robbins’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably 105 Wash. 2d 692 - State v. Kwan Fai Mak (1986), State v. Luzzi (1959)
35 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. Linden · Smith v. State · Sloan v. West · State v. Snyder · State v. Eaid
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The term ‘communication,’ within meaning of privileged communication rule, as to husband and wife, should be given a liberal construction and is not confined to mere audible communications or conversations between the spouses, but embraces all facts which have come to his or her knowledge or under his or her observation in consequence or by reason of confidence of marital relation, and which, but for confidence growing out of it, would not have been known. [Rem. Rev.Stat. § 1214, subd. 1].””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“gain or lose by the direct legal operation and effect of the judgment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A husband shall not be examined for or against his wife, without the consent of the wife, nor a wife for or against her husband without the consent of the husband; nor can either during marriage or afterward, be without the consent of the other, examined as to any communication made by one to the other during marriage.”
1 later decision 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.