94 Wash. 2d 527 - State v. Sutherland’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently September 2010 · most notably 135 Wash. 2d 326 - State v. Riles (1998), 105 Wash. 2d 632 - State v. Terrovona (1986)
28 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 Tate v. United States · Pulliam v. Georgia · 89 Wash. 2d 613 - State v. Young · 303 So. 2d 632 - Sullivan v. State · 333 So. 2d 457 - Alsdorf v. Broward County
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The jury could scarcely conclude other than that Gjerde was telling the truth and that the police investigators believed him.... The error was compounded by the prosecution's reference to the polygraph tests during its closing argument.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Justesen“The mere fact a jury is apprised of a lie detector test is not necessarily prejudicial if no inference as to the result is raised”
1 later decision 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.