118 Wash. 2d 37 - State v. Saas’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
74
cited by 74 later decisions
1
states following
June 2009
most recently cited
74 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Reves v. Ernst & Young · 87 Wash. 2d 363 - State v. Newton · 83 Wash. 2d 594 - State v. Taylor · 93 Wash. 2d 301 - State v. Barton · 102 Wash. 2d 87 - State v. Osborne
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he court shall allow a defendant to withdraw the defendant's plea of guilty whenever it appears that the withdrawal is necessary to correct a manifest injustice.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“`an injustice that is obvious, directly observable, overt, not obscure.'”
8 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ross · State v. Mendoza“The court shall not accept a plea of guilty, without first determining that it is made voluntarily, competently and with an understanding of the nature of the charge and the consequences of the plea. The court shall not enter a judgment upon a plea of guilty unless it is satisfied that there is a factual basis for the plea.”
6 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.