State v. Avila’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably State v. Zmich (1989), 104 Wash. 2d 338 - State v. Johnson (1985)
2 federal appellate · 45 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 Boykin v. Alabama · Johnson v. Zerbst · State v. Crowley · State v. Woods · State v. Ellis
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. The right to a trial by jury where he may have representation of counsel; 2. The right to have the issue of guilt or innocence decided by the judge based solely upon the record submitted; 3. The right to testify in his own behalf; 4. The right to be confronted with the witnesses against him; 5. The right to compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor; 6. The right to know the range of sentence and special conditions of sentencing.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“was aware, prior to submission, of the possible range of sentence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Bunting“five of the six previously described warnings,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Bunting
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.