102 Wash. 2d 188 - State v. Kelly’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 83 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently March 2020 · most notably State v. Koss (1990), 126 Wash. 2d 244 - State v. Powell (1995)
3 federal appellate · 83 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Michelson v. United States · Barrett v. United States · 88 Wash. 2d 221 - State v. Wanrow · 96 Wash. 2d 591 - State v. Tharp · 101 Wash. 2d 591 - State v. Allery
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) A lawyer for a defendant who is financially unable to obtain investigative, expert, or other services necessary to an adequate defense in the case may request them by a motion to the court. (2) Upon finding the services are necessary and that the defendant is financially unable to obtain them, the court, or a person or agency to whom the administration of the program may have been delegated by local court rule, shall authorize the services.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“incorporates constitutional requirements”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“(a) Character Evidence Generally. Evidence of a person's character or a trait of character is not admissible for the purpose of proving action in conformity therewith on a particular occasion, except: (1) Character of Accused. Evidence of a pertinent trait of character offered by an accused, or by the prosecution to rebut the same[.]”
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.