99 Wash. 2d 44 - State v. Vaster’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently September 2011 · most notably State v. Morales (1995), 119 Wash. 2d 294 - State v. Ortiz (1992)
43 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Agurs · United States v. Augenblick · 12 Cal. 3d 641 - People v. Hitch · United States v. Carlton E. Bryant, United States of America v. William E. Turner
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must be determined in light of the peculiar circumstance of each case. Lost or destroyed evidence which does not rise to the level of establishing a”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“Were Brady and its progeny applicable only when the exact content of the non-disclosed materials was known, the disclosure duty would be an empty promise, easily circumvented by suppression of evidence by means of destruction rather than mere failure to reveal.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“While the police in this case did not have physical control over the vaginal sample, they were given the authority to request its preservation. Their silence indicated permission, albeit unintentional, that the sample be destroyed.”
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.