50 Wash. App. 481 - State v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently December 2003
14 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 Simmons v. United States · Manson v. Brathwaite · Frye v. United States · 37 Cal. 3d 351 - People v. McDonald · State v. Chapple
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) where the identification of the defendant is the principal issue at trial; (2) the defendant presents an alibi defense; and (3) there is little or no other evidence linking the defendant to the crime.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“close and confusing, and which 'cry out' for an explanation”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“. (Footnote omitted.) Johnson, 49 Wn. App. at 439-40 ; see also Taylor, 50 Wn. App. at 489 . Thus, while these factors provide guidance for determining whether there has been an abuse of discretion, they do not establish an inflexible formula mandating automatic reversal if all three factors are found to be present. The determinative question in every case such as this is will the expert testimony be helpful to the trier of fact? Here, the trial court excluded Dr. Goodman's testimony finding that it did not assist the trier of fact, but that rather it would”
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.