State v. Covington’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably State v. Arceo (1996), State v. Altgilbers (1989)
1 federal appellate · 37 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 101 Wash. 2d 566 - State v. Petrich · Love v. State · State v. Andrews · Dorman v. State · 39 Wash. App. 652 - State v. Fitzgerald
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no impeaching or contrary evidence was more applicable to one incident than another”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Wurthmann v. State · State v. Arceo“did not appreciably affect any verdict against Covington”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Arceo · Khan v. State“"In a case where discrete incidents of sexual abuse are charged together in a single count, and impeaching and contrary evidence of differing weight is offered to rebut the several incidents, a real possibility exists that individual jurors will reject some incidents, based upon an evaluation of the impeaching and contrary evidence, but accept other incidents as proven. In such a case, the twelve jurors may agree that the defendant committed at least one of the incidents, but be in general disagreement as to which incident that was."”
2 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.