94 Wash. 2d 276 - State v. Thacker’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently May 2020
12 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 88 Wash. 2d 221 - State v. Wanrow · United States v. Bohle · 93 Wash. 2d 186 - State v. Stephens · 16 Ill. App. 3d 89 - Goldstein v. Hertz Corp. · 54 Ill. 2d 33 - People v. Moore
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A harmless error is an error which is trivial, or formal, or merely academic, and was not prejudicial to the substantial rights of the party assigning it, and in no way affected the final outcome of the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[S]uppression of evidence is not one of the sanctions available.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hutchinson
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.