110 Wash. 2d 504 - State v. Belgarde’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 133 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 138 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably 126 Wash. 2d 136 - State v. Brett (1995), 115 Wash. 2d 609 - State v. Dennison (1990)
3 federal appellate · 133 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 Doyle v. Ohio · Bibby v. United States · Anderson v. Charles · Lawrence Metze v. New York · First National Bank in Plant City v. Dickinson
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 138 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is so flagrant and ill intentioned that no curative instructions could have obviated the prejudice engendered by the misconduct.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“inflammatory comments were a deliberate appeal to the jury's passion and prejudice”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“`If misconduct is so flagrant that no instruction can cure it, there is, in effect, a mistrial and a new trial is the only and the mandatory remedy.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Copeland · State v. Warren
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.