58 Wash. 2d 73 - State v. Tatum’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently March 2020 · most notably 82 Wash. 2d 584 - State v. J-R Distributors, Inc. (1973), 78 Wash. 2d 491 - State v. Jacobsen (1970)
41 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 Hassam v. J. E. Safford Lumber Co. · Kelly v. City of Spokane · Norland v. Peterson · Quayle v. Knox
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“What quantum of authentication do courts require before a photograph may be admissible in evidence? It is simply this—that some witness (not necessarily the photographer) be able to give some indication as to when, where, and under what circumstances the photograph was taken, . . .”
2 later decisions 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.