70 Wash. 2d 365 - State v. Lung’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably State v. Nicely (1988), 115 Wash. 2d 775 - State v. Smith (1990)
3 federal appellate · 63 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 Massiah v. United States · 37 Wash. 2d 759 - State v. Meyer · 70 Cal. App. 531 - People v. Clark · 57 Wash. 2d 516 - State v. Little · 10 Wash. 2d 167 - State v. Anderson
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[t]he final test [of the corpus delicti rule] is whether the facts found and the reasonable inferences from them have proved the nonexistence of any reasonable hypothesis of innocence.'”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“`[I]f there is independent proof thereof, such confession may then be considered in connection therewith and the corpus delicti established by a combination of the independent proof and the confession,'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“In a homicide case, the corpus delicti consists of two elements the State must prove at trial: (1) the fact of death and (2) a causal connection between the death and a criminal act.”
3 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.