43 Wash. 2d 23 - State v. Moorison’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently August 2011 · most notably 103 Wash. 2d 165 - State v. Ryan (1984), State v. Butler (1958)
36 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 District of Columbia v. Armes · 145 Ohio St. 379 - State v. Wildman · State v. Herring · State v. Hayward · State v. Hardung
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) Those who are of unsound mind, or intoxicated at the time of their production for examination, and (2) Children 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.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“`possessed of sufficient mind and memory to observe, recollect, and narrate the things he has seen or heard.'”
3 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.