52 Wash. App. 897 - State v. Alexander’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently August 2021
3 federal appellate · 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 93 Wash. 2d 823 - State v. Cunningham · United States v. Burks · 102 Wash. 2d 188 - State v. Kelly · 76 Wash. 2d 449 - State v. Gefeller · 62 Wash. 2d 118 - State v. Oswalt
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The self-defense issue could be resolved without any evidence of, or reliance upon, a character trait of [the victim] or the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hutchinson“Contradictory or impeaching testimony is collateral if it could not be shown in evidence for any purpose independent of contradiction”
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.