43 Wash. App. 580 - State v. White’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
January 2002
most recently cited
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Luce v. United States · Mabry v. Johnson · United States v. Shaw · 98 Wash. 2d 30 - State v. Robtoy · 101 Wash. 2d 745 - State v. Laureano
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is apparent that no bright line rule can be formulated for this issue, and that each case will have to be determined on its facts.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“where a trial court has engaged in the proper balancing, and has properly determined that a prior conviction or convictions should be admitted for impeachment purposes, admitting them simply as unnamed prior crimes is appropriate in circum stances where the prior crimes were the same or similar to those for which the defendant was currently on trial. . ..”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“any prior convictions must either be admitted by name or excluded altogether if the jury is to have sufficient tools to judge credibility, and that admitting an unnamed felony merely opens the door to widespread speculation as to the prior offense and why it was admitted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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