State v. Martin’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably Evergreen Freedom Foundation v. EDUC. ASS'N (2000), Morgan v. City of Federal Way (2009)
35 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 Trammel v. United States · 121 Wash. 2d 513 - Erection Co. v. Department of Labor & Industries · 175 Ill. 2d 335 - People v. McNeal · 95 Wash. 2d 536 - State v. Hall · In re Grand Jury Investigation
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A member of the clergy or a priest shall not, without the consent of a person making the confession, be examined as to any confession made to him or her in his or her professional character, in the course of discipline enjoined by the church to which he or she belongs.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“A broad interpretation of `confession' would `minimize the risk that [RCW 5.60.060(3)] might be discriminatorily applied because of differing judicial perceptions of a given church's practices or religious doctrine[.]'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he religious entity, and not the courts, should `decide what types of communications constitute confessions within the meaning of a particular religion.'”
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.