66 Wash. 2d 111 - State v. Bruton’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably United States v. Myers (1977), 105 Wash. 2d 398 - State v. Jeffries (1986)
3 federal appellate · 46 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 51 Wash. 2d 830 - State v. Reynolds · 26 Wash. 2d 468 - State v. Wilson · 30 Wash. 2d 76 - State v. McDaniels · 26 Wash. 2d 394 - State v. Lew · 63 Wash. 2d 751 - In Re Cassel
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[F]light is an instinctive or impulsive reaction to a consciousness of guilt or is a deliberate attempt to avoid arrest and prosecution.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[p]yramiding vague inference upon vague inference [to] supplant the absence of basic facts or circumstances from which the essential inference of an actual flight must be drawn.”
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.