State v. Kells’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently January 2011
6 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 United States v. Sealy, Inc. · 70 Wash. 2d 331 - In RE DILLENBURG v. Maxwell · 90 Wash. 2d 282 - State v. Sweet · 79 Wash. App. 14 - State v. Pritchard · State v. Tomal
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] criminal appeal may not be dismissed as untimely unless the State demonstrates that the defendant voluntarily, knowingly and intelligently abandoned his appeal right.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Devin · State v. Burmaster“The appellate court will only in extraordinary circumstances and to prevent a gross miscarriage of justice extend the time within which a party must file a notice of appeal.... The appellate court will ordinarily hold that the desirability of finality of decisions outweighs the privilege of a litigant to obtain an extension of time under this section.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Kells“All of the acts and proceedings of court commissioners hereunder shall be subject to revision by the superior court. Any party in interest may have such revision upon demand made by written motion, filed with the clerk of the superior court, within ten days after the entry of any order or judgment of the court commissioner.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Kells
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.