64 Wash. App. 410 - State v. Walton’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
161 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 163 later decisions — most recently April 2021 · most notably Matter of Pirtle (1998), Boeing Co. v. Heidy (2002)
161 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Rhode Island v. Innis · Oregon v. Elstad · Mathis v. United States · Barefoot v. Estelle
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 163 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A claim of insufficiency admits the truth of the State's evidence and all inferences that reasonably can be drawn therefrom.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“routine background questions necessary for identification and to assist a judge in setting reasonable bail ... are precisely the routine statements which are admissible, even though they ultimately prove to be incriminating.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Denney“whether, after viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Martinez
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.