54 Wash. 2d 100 - State v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently July 1998 · most notably 71 Wash. 2d 621 - State v. Boehme (1967), 101 Wash. 2d 270 - Coburn v. Seda (1984)
3 federal appellate · 24 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 State v. Payne · State v. Morrison · State v. Allen
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It does not necessarily follow from the use of the word “confidential,” that it was the legislative intention that this word have the same import as the word “privileged.” The intention of the lawmaking body to place the autopsy report in a class which is not subject to judicial inquiry or process cannot be determined by the word “confidential” as used alone in the cited section of the statute. The legislative intent must be gleaned from an examina lion of the enactment in its entirety.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Reports and records of autopsies or post mortems shall be confidential, except that the following persons may examine and obtain copies of any such report or record: The personal representative of the decedent as defined in RCW 11.02.005, any family member, the attending physician, the prosecuting attorney or law enforcement agencies having jurisdiction, public health officials, or to the department of labor and industries in cases in which it has an interest under RCW 68.50.103.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“is composed of the records and reports of the probation counselor. RCW 13.50.010(1)(c). This file is confidential; the statute narrowly circumscribes the conditions for its use and release. RCW 13.50.050(3). By making the social file confidential, however, the legislature did not confer a testimonial privilege. It does not necessarily follow from the use of the word”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.