79 Wash. 2d 495 - State v. Passafero’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently February 2021
15 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 36 Wash. 2d 367 - State v. Goebel · 40 Wash. 2d 18 - State v. Goebel · 73 Wash. 2d 372 - State v. Weiss · 66 Wash. 2d 278 - State v. Holbrook · 73 Wash. 2d 244 - State v. Summers
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Evidence that the defendant has previously been convicted of a crime is not evidence of the defendant's guilt. Such evidence may be considered by you in deciding what weight or credibility should be given to the testimony of the defendant and for no other purpose.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he transfer, or binding over to superior court, is a formal procedure and is without importance because regardless of what is done by the magistrate, the prosecuting attorney can file an information in superior court”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he trial court, not the defendant, instructs the jury.”
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.