5 Wash. App. 1 - State v. Temple’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently March 2010 · most notably Commonwealth v. Katchmer (1973), 82 Wash. 2d 777 - State v. Craig (1973)
28 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Pointer v. Texas · Alford v. United States · Brookhart v. Janis · Smith v. Illinois
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is a basic and essential rule that “[t]he extent of the cross-examination of a witness upon collateral matters which tend to affect the weight to be given the witness’ testimony, rests within the sound discretion of the trial court.” State v. Goddard, 56 Wn.2d 33, 37 , 351 P.2d 159 (1960).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“done in connection with [the felony], as a part of the same transaction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Every person convicted of a crime shall be a competent witness in any civil or criminal proceeding, but his conviction may be proved for the purpose of affecting the weight of his testimony, either by the record thereof, or a copy of such record duly authenticated by the legal custodian thereof, or by other competent evidence, or by his cross-examination, upon which he shall answer any proper question relevant to that inquiry, and the party cross-examining shall not be concluded by his answer thereto.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ludwig
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.