85 Wash. 2d 126 - State v. Fields’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably 106 Wash. 2d 54 - State v. Gunwall (1986), State v. Ladson (1999)
47 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 State Ex Rel. Foster-Wyman Lumber Co. v. Superior Court · State v. Bullard · People v. Leahy · State v. Much · 29 Wash. 2d 921 - State v. Miles
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The supreme court shall have the power to prescribe ... [the process] of taking and obtaining evidence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the inherent power to govern court procedures.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“unreasonable search and seizure, made without probable cause.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ladson
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.