State v. Fenney’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably 120 Wash. 2d 879 - State v. Cauthron (1993), 94 Wash. App. 80 - State v. Karpenski (1999)
31 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 Frye v. United States · State v. MacK · State v. Joon Kyu Kim · State v. Kolander · People v. Barbara
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“had no real probative value and the potential for unfair prejudice was high, particularly in light of the impermissible bolstering of Agent Luttring's testimony by reference to his experience administering polygraph tests.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Schaeffer“[T]he results of polygraph tests as well as any direct or indirect references to the taking of or refusal to take such a test are inadmissible.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Schaeffer“that experts in the field widely share the view that the results of [scientific testing] are scientifically reliable as accurate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Klawitter
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.