State v. Wallace’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
197 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 201 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Leonard (2004), State v. Taylor (1993)
197 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. Duncan · Haggins v. Warden · 76 Wash. 2d 398 - Johnston v. Ohls · State v. McLain · United States v. Glenn
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 201 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] statement relating to a startling event or condition made while the declarant was under the stress of excitement caused by the event or condition.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage“(a) that there was some occurrence startling enough to produce a nervous excitement in the declarant, which was sufficient to still his reflective faculties and thereby make his statements and declarations the unreflective and sincere expression of his actual impressions and beliefs, and thus render his statement or declaration spontaneous and unreflective,”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) is neither coercive nor leading, (2) facilitates the declarant's expression of what is already the natural focus of the declarant's thoughts, and (3) does not destroy the domination of the nervous excitement over the declarant's reflective faculties.”
15 later decisions 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.