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← 78 Wash. 2d 338 - State v. Briscoe

78 Wash. 2d 338 - State v. Briscoe’s Empirical Analysis

1970

Citation profile

9
cited by 9 later decisions
2
states following
September 1981
most recently cited

9 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 40 Wash. 2d 840 - State v. Cyr · 52 Wash. 2d 324 - State v. Duree · State v. McMullen · 76 Wash. 2d 513 - State v. Donaldson · State v. Stilts

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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Since the testimony of the witness relates to the defendant's reputation in the community, the pertinent inquiry then is not what the witness knows about the defendant but rather what he has heard about him in the community.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “a general vilification . . . under the guise of legitimate cross-examination.”
    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.