76 Wash. App. 780 - State v. Buss’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
20
cited by 20 later decisions
2
states following
March 2007
most recently cited
20 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Davis v. Alaska · 124 Wash. 2d 57 - State v. Johnson · 114 Wash. 2d 353 - State v. Motherwell · 113 Wash. 2d 273 - State v. Hopson
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] member of the clergy or a priest shall not, without the consent of a person making the confession, be examined as to any confession made to him or her in his or her professional character, in the course of discipline enjoined by the church to which he or she belongs.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“should be coextensive with the [clergy-penitent] privilege under RCW 5.60.060(3)”
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.