41 Wash. App. 538 - State v. York’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently May 2012 · most notably State v. Perry (1988), Keeter v. State (2002)
30 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 96 Wash. 2d 215 - State v. Williams · 100 Wash. 2d 476 - Goodman v. Darden, Doman & Stafford Associates · 89 Wash. 2d 932 - Moore v. Smith · 84 Wash. 2d 836 - State v. Rolax · State v. Powell
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a defendant is convicted solely on the testimony of the now recanting witness, this court has squarely held that it is an abuse of discretion not to grant a new trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“justify a conviction and penal sentence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. MacOn
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.