116 Wash. 2d 531 - State v. Ray’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 95 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably State v. Copeland (1996), Barker v. Fleming (2005)
3 federal appellate · 95 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 Strickland v. Washington · Luce v. United States · 94 Wash. 2d 216 - State v. Green · Bose Corp. v. Consumers Union of United States, Inc. · 115 Wash. 2d 60 - State v. Camarillo
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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t informs the court of the legal theory under which the offered evidence is admissible; it informs the judge of the specific nature of the offered evidence so that the court can assess its admissibility; and it creates a record adequate for review.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“errors so serious that counsel was not functioning as the 'counsel' guaranteed ... by the Sixth Amendment.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“... within reasonable probabilities, had the error not occurred, the outcome of the trial would have been materially affected.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hardy · State v. Rivers
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.