50 Wash. App. 412 - State v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently December 2014
23 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 Cupp v. Naughten · 96 Wash. 2d 591 - State v. Tharp · 73 Wash. 2d 533 - State v. Dana · 95 Wash. 2d 15 - State v. Alexis · 98 Wash. 2d 748 - State v. Pam
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'appeared to be sobbing . . . her facial expression, the lack of tears, the lack of any redness in her face did not look genuine or sincere’.” Allen, 50 Wn. App. at 416 . The Court in Allen explained Haga as a case in which the witness, an ambulance driver, purported to testify as an expert on whether the defendant’s reaction was that of a truly bereaved person.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“is admissible if it is prefaced with a proper foundation: personal observations of the defendant's conduct, factually recounted by the witness, that directly and logically support the conclusion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]estimony in the form of an opinion or inferences otherwise admissible is not objectionable because it embraces an ultimate issue to be decided by the trier of fact.”
1 later decision 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.