51 Wash. App. 947 - State v. Watson’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently April 2024
9 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 Cabrera-Martinez v. United States · 97 Wash. 2d 493 - State v. Grisby · 56 Wash. 2d 846 - State v. Baker · 96 Wash. 2d 816 - State v. Franco · 78 Wash. 2d 121 - State v. Golladay
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“State v. Ford, 110 Wn.2d 827, 829 , 755 P.2d 806 (1988). Among the regulations adopted by the State Toxicologist is WAC 448-12-015. Thus, by statute, a Breathalyzer test is valid only if the machine is maintained in accordance with this regulation. In State v. Ryan, 43 Wn. App. 488 , 717 P.2d 1390 (1986), the court observed that, in order for the [State v.] Baker [ 56 Wn.2d 846 , 355 P.2d 806 (I960)] requirement to be satisfied,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Analysis of the person's blood or breath to be considered valid under the provisions of this section or RCW 46.61.502 or 46.61.504 shall have been performed according to methods approved by the state toxicologist and by an individual possessing a valid permit issued by the state toxicologist for this purpose. The state toxicologist is directed to approve satisfactory techniques or methods . . ..”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“As part of the foundation requirement for the admission of Breathalyzer test results, the State must introduce prima facie evidence to show that the machine was properly checked and in proper working order at the time of conducting the test”
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.