80 Wash. App. 116 - State v. Carlson’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently September 2014
19 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 Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · Bourjaily v. United States · Benjamin v. United States · Cabrera-Martinez v. United States · Tate v. United States
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Dr. Feldman's physical findings were inconclusive, and Washington law has never recognized the ability of a doctor or other expert to diagnose sexual abuse based solely on the statements of an alleged victim. If Dr. Feldman had a scientific basis for her opinion concerning sexual abuse, that basis surely is novel.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Dunn · State v. Dunn“Do you have an opinion within [a] reasonable degree of medical certainty whether the findings that you observed in [E] were consistent with the history of sexual abuse that you were given?”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Kirkman“trusted the interview that [E] had been sexually abused by her father.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Kirkman
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.