92 Wash. 2d 134 - State v. Olson’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently December 2013
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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1621
Relies on Bronston v. United States · 10 Cal. 3d 939 - People v. Rosoto · United States v. Wall · 193 Cal. App. 2d 688 - People v. Di Giacomo · Galanos 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. The testimony of at least one credible witness which is positive and directly contradictory of the defendant’s oath; and 2. Another such direct witness or independent evidence of corroborating circumstances of such a character as clearly to turn the scale and overcome the oath of the defendant and the legal presumption of his innocence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A person is guilty of perjury in the first degree if in any official proceeding he makes a materially false statement which he knows to be false under an oath required or authorized by law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The burden is on the questioner to pin the witness down to the specific object of his inquiry. Precise questioning . . . is imperative as a predicate for perjury.”
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.