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91 Wash. 2d 580 - State v. Stroh’s Empirical Analysis

1979

Citation profile

38
cited by 38 later decisions
4
states following
October 2016
most recently cited

36 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently October 2016 · most notably State v. Bash (1996), State v. Cavallo (1986)

36 state decisions

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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

Applies 8 U.S.C. § 1503 (§ 360 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))

Relies on Smith v. People of the State of California · Pettibone v. United States · United States v. Truesdell · 70 Wash. 2d 405 - City of Seattle v. Drew · State v. Jennings

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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “attempts to influence a witness to change his testimony or to absent himself from a trial . . . have as their purpose and it is their natural tendency to obstruct justice. They are offenses against the very object and purpose for which courts are established.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 97 Wash. 2d 289 - In Re the Disciplinary Proceeding Against Stroh · 110 Wash. 2d 925 - In Re Disciplinary Proceeding Against Simmons
  2. “an implied requirement that criminal intent be proved may be found in a statute, even though it contains no express requirement with respect to intent, upon the assumption that the legislature did not intend to enact an unjust law.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 103 Wash. 2d 853 - State v. O'NEILL
  3. “The obstruction of justice is the evil which the statute was designed to forestall.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Hall

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.