83 Wash. App. 209 - State v. Fleming’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably State v. Warren (2008), In re the Personal Restraint of Glasmann (2012)
40 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · 117 Wash. 2d 479 - State v. Blair · 61 Wash. App. 354 - State v. Casteneda-Perez · 43 Wash. App. 99 - State v. Traweek · 60 Wash. App. 869 - State v. Barrow
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is misconduct for a prosecutor to argue that in order to acquit a defendant, the jury must find that the State's witnesses are either lying or mistaken.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[the jury] would have to find either that [the complaining witness] has lied about what occurred ... or that she was confused..., misstat[ing] the law and misrepresent[ing] both the role of the jury and the burden of proof.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lewis · State v. Lewis“[F]or you to find the defendants, Derek Lee and Dwight Fleming, not guilty of the crime of rape in the second degree, ... you would have to find either that [D.S.] has lied about what occurred in that bedroom or that she was confused; essentially that she fantasized what occurred back in that bedroom.”
2 later decisions 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.