State v. Lopez’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 2024
16 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Dutton v. Evans · 104 Wash. 2d 412 - State v. Guloy · 114 Wash. 2d 613 - State v. Swan · 103 Wash. 2d 165 - State v. Ryan
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[s]tatements made for purposes of medical diagnosis or treatment and describing medical history, or past or present symptoms, pain, or sensations, or the inception or general character of the cause or external source thereof insofar as reasonably pertinent to diagnosis or treatment”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Moses · State v. Kilgore“[s]tatements attributing fault to a member of the victim's immediate household may be reasonably pertinent to treatment and are thus admissible because it is `relevant to the prevention of recurrence of injury.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[d]eciding if the questions are inappropriate requires examining whether the focus of the questioning is to impart evidence within the prosecutor's personal knowledge without the prosecutor formally testifying.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Miles
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.