4 Wash. App. 850 - State v. Wilder’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently April 2002
20 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 People v. Levy · State v. Berry · 62 Wash. 2d 259 - State v. Swenson · 2 Wash. App. 241 - State v. Tate · 2 Wash. App. 464 - State v. Peterson
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is fundamental that a defendant charged with the commission of a crime should be given great latitude in the cross-examination of prosecuting witnesses to show motive or credibility.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the witness should first be given an opportunity either to demonstrate his bias or to deny having uttered the prior inconsistent statement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“apply the Harmon limitation upon the right to pursue bias of a witness”
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.