State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 1963
8 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 State v. Bailey · People v. Swist · Freidrich v. Territory of Washington · State v. Myrberg · State v. Jakubowski
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is the settled rule of this court, together with most other jurisdictions, that ‘the capacity of a witness of tender years is a question for the discretion of the trial judge, and will not- be disturbed except in cases of manifest abuse of discretion.’ State v. Bailey, 31 Wash. 89 , 71 Pac. 715 ; Kalberg v. The Bon Marche, 64 Wash 452, 117 Pac. 227 ; State v. Myrberg, 56 Wash. 384 , 105 Pac. 622 .””
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.