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State v. Thomas

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Abrogated
Court
Supreme Court of Washington
Citation
83 P.3d 970
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
117 of 117
Citing cases (total)
954
Treatment dates
2004
Abrogated
A reviewed court treats this case as abrogated by later authority. State v. Thomas was abrogated in part by Crawford v. Washington, but its unaffected holdings continue to be applied. All 117 flagged citations were read.
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The later Washington opinions overwhelmingly repeated the Crawford history parenthetical while applying Thomas on sufficiency, credibility, waiver, and other unaffected rules; none independently imposed another adverse treatment. The one confirmed treatment is listed below.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

954 later cases cite State v. Thomas; 117 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Treatments

Abrogated

  • Crawford abrogated Thomas's use of Ohio v. Roberts's reliability test to decide whether testimonial hearsay satisfies the Confrontation Clause.

    Crawford v. Washington · Supreme Court of the United States · filed

    The Roberts test allows a jury to hear evidence, untested by the adversary process, based on a mere judicial determination of reliability. It thus replaces the constitutionally prescribed method of assessing reliability with a wholly foreign one.
    Read the full opinion on CourtListener →

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