State v. Vigil’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
81 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently October 2019 · most notably State v. Cunningham (2000), State v. Apodaca (1994)
81 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 State v. Sutphin · 101 Wash. 2d 591 - State v. Allery · State v. Castrillo · State v. Sparks · State v. Duran
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`merit of evidence that may have supported a verdict to the contrary.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“We will not substitute our own judgment over trial tactics for the judgment of defense counsel when it is not clear that the defendant was deprived of a meritorious defense because the judgment of defense counsel was without excuse or justification.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Chamberlain“jurors to believe that they had to be unanimously in favor of acquittal on the first-degree murder charge before they could move on to consider lesser charges,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lewis
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.