41 Wash. App. 820 - State v. Gitchel’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently March 2014 · most notably 115 Wash. 2d 60 - State v. Camarillo (1990), 110 Wash. 2d 403 - State v. Kitchen (2004)
33 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 Ohio v. Roberts · Dutton v. Evans · 101 Wash. 2d 566 - State v. Petrich · 103 Wash. 2d 165 - State v. Ryan · 96 Wash. 2d 816 - State v. Franco
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[H]owever, cross examination would not have shown R's lack of knowledge under these circumstances, as R demonstrated that she did not respond to questions in a courtroom setting. Even if she were capable of being cross-examined, the number of times and the circumstances in which she repeated her statement that her daddy hurt her or put his ponytail in her anus tend to establish that R's description of what occurred was credible.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“(b) Is unavailable as a witness: Provided, That when the child is unavailable as a witness, such statement may be admitted only if there is corroborative evidence of the act.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[cjhildren under ten years of age, who appear incapable of receiving just impressions of the facts, respecting which they are examined, or of relating them truly.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.