7 Wash. App. 726 - State v. Hutton’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently June 2011 · most notably State v. Maupin (1975), 84 Wash. 2d 256 - State v. Carothers (1974)
39 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 78 Wash. 2d 121 - State v. Golladay · 14 Ill. 2d 325 - The People v. Robinson · 78 Wash. 2d 362 - State v. Todd · 56 Cal. 2d 660 - People v. McLean · 68 Wash. 2d 416 - State v. Baxter
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“would convince an unprejudiced, thinking mind of the truth of the fact to which the evidence is directed.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Ordinarily, however, not only prudence but necessity as well would dictate that some expression of opinion through expertise acquired through education or experience, be expressed to support the identity of the substance possessed or distributed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]he normal method of proof is through the opinion of an expert who has either examined the substance or who otherwise is presented with a factual foundation upon which to base an opinion... .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cory v. State
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.