State v. Washington’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 2015
1 federal appellate · 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 Ohio v. Roberts · Idaho v. Wright · Douglas v. Alabama · White v. Illinois · State v. Odom
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that [the victim] was mentally retarded. Based on his experiences and on his review of psychological evaluations performed on [the victim], Dr. Grubb testified that [the victim] functions around the level of an eight-year-old, both mentally and emotionally. He testified that [the victim’s] ability to make informed decisions about “anything complicated” is significantly decreased by her mental retardation. In Dr. Grubb’s words, “She can’t evaluate a lot of different things and put it together and make a decision in her own best interest most of the time. Weighing all the consequences and all the information is something that she is not very capable of doing.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“if there is substantial evidence that a person has engaged in prohibited sexual conduct in violation of G.S. 14-27.3 or 14-27.5, and that the victim was mentally defective, and that the person performing the act knew or reasonably should have known that the victim was mentally defective, then ipso facto, there is substantial evidence that the person has engaged in such conduct “by force and against the will” of the victim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“there was substantial evidence that defendant engaged in both vaginal intercourse and a “sexual act” with [the victim;] .... that [the victim] was mentally retarded, and that defendant knew of [the victim’s] retardation[;] .... [and] that [the victim’s] mental retardation rendered her substantially incapable of “resisting the act of vaginal intercourse or a sexual act.””
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.