67 Wash. 2d 77 - State v. Craig’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently April 1997
17 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 Escobedo v. Illinois · State v. Lyle · 65 Wash. 2d 808 - State v. Darst · State v. Gunkel · 29 Wash. 2d 921 - State v. Miles
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It appears that the writing of a signature was-assumed to be testimonial in nature and its admission into evi dence was asserted to infringe what defendant claims to be his “constitutional right to remain silent.” The privilege against self-incrimination applies to testimonial compulsion only. It does not apply to a simple physical act, a bodily action like taking off shoes or rolling up sleeves or writing for identification. These • are simply body exhibitions. [Citing authorities.] • ■ >”
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.