53 Wash. App. 120 - State v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently July 2012
22 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 103 Wash. 2d 165 - State v. Ryan · 101 Wash. 2d 745 - State v. Laureano · 87 Wash. 2d 175 - State v. Burri · 105 Wash. 2d 889 - State v. John Doe · 96 Wash. 2d 301 - State v. Froehlich
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The child either: "(a) Testifies at the proceedings; or "(b) Is unavailable as a witness: Provided, That when the child is unavailable as a witness, such statement may be admitted only if there is corroborative evidence of the act."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[w]henever a child under 10 years old is offered as a witness, the court must assume the initiative in determining his competency.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. CMB“[t]he right to interview a witness does not mean that there is a right to have a successful interview.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Mankin
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.