People v. Washington’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
122 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 132 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2024 · most notably Wainwright v. Witt (1985), McGautha v. California (1971)
122 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 Chapman v. State of California · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Singer v. United States · 60 Cal. 2d 631 - People v. Morse · 63 Cal. 2d 659 - People v. Cockrell
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 132 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“under the rationale of [ People v. Johnson, 68 Cal.2d 646 [ 68 Cal. Rptr. 599 , 441 P.2d 111 ]], and based upon the Sixth Amendment, Evidence Code section 1236 is unconstitutional in criminal cases insofar as it permits the substantive use of prior consistent statements against defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Evidence of a statement previously made by a witness is not made inadmissible by the hearsay rule if the statement is consistent with his testimony at the hearing and is offered in compliance with Section 791.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Evidence of a statement previously made by a witness that is consistent with his testimony at the hearing is inadmissible to support his credibility unless it is offered after:”
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.