76 Wash. App. 55 - State v. Florczak’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably State v. Kirkman (2007), State v. Woods (2001)
50 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 Ohio v. Roberts · Idaho v. Wright · Frye v. United States · White v. Illinois · 106 Wash. 2d 54 - State v. Gunwall
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The medical diagnosis exception is normally a firmly rooted exception, but this is not true for statements by very young children under the alternative test in Florczak. "). The court in Florczak recognized that it has only been in the last 15 years that the medical diagnosis exception has "extended in this state to include out-of-court statements to health care professionals from children too young to comprehend the purpose of the statements.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Failure to object to the admissibility of evidence at trial precludes appellate review of that issue unless the alleged error involves manifest error affecting a constitutional right.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“it is not per se a requirement that the child victim understand that his or her statement was needed for treatment if the statement has other indicia of reliability.”
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.