126 Wash. 2d 244 - State v. Powell’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 260 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 263 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably State v. Stenson (1997), State v. Brown (1997)
3 federal appellate · 260 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 Chapman v. State of California · United States v. Bagley · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Bibby v. United States · Payless Wholesale Distributor, Inc. v. Albert Culver (P.R.) Inc.
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 263 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“manifestly unreasonable or based upon untenable grounds or reasons.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“`there is a reasonable probability that the outcome of the trial would have been different had the error not occurred.... A reasonable probability exists when confidence in the outcome of the trial is undermined.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Arndt · State v. A.M.“"the importance of the witness' testimony in the prosecution's case, whether the testimony was cumulative, the presence or absence of evidence corroborating or contradicting the testimony of the witness on material points, the extent of cross-examination otherwise permitted, and, of course, the overall strength of the prosecution's case."”
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.