State v. Hernandez’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently March 2020
23 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 94 Wash. 2d 634 - State v. Delmarter · 64 Wash. App. 410 - State v. Walton · United States v. Schrock · 118 Wash. 2d 681 - State v. Chapin · Toliver 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“defer to the trier of fact on issues involving conflicting testimony, credibility of the witnesses, and the persuasiveness of the evidence.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“a witness who demonstrates an expertise `acquired either by education or experience' in [drug identification] may give an opinion as to the identity of the substance”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“as long as the available circumstantial evidence establishes its identity [as a controlled substance] beyond a reasonable doubt[,] ... [c]ircumstantial evidence establishing identification may include ... lay-experience based on familiarity through prior use, trading, or law enforcement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Colquitt
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.