Washington v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently September 1976
17 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 Newton v. State · Webster v. State · Milton v. State · Denham v. State
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It was erroneous and unnecessary to press the inquiry [during cross-examination of the defendant] as to the conviction of crime to the point where the particular offense was named; because such course seemed to be for a purpose different from that on which the question is allowable as to a witness' former conviction of crime. It is to discredit him as a witness, but to press the inquiry as to the character of the particular crime that it may be shown to be of a similar character to that for which he is being tried is to use the rule for an improper purpose ..." (At 604).”
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.