State v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently July 2014
10 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 Folsom v. Burger King · 83 Wash. 2d 558 - State v. Hill · 87 Wash. App. 937 - In Re the Detention of Haga
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen I did return to court to represent [Robinson] after the second contempt citation, Elve pleaded with me to put him on the stand and let him testify on his own behalf. At that time I was so upset about my interactions with the trial judge that I only wanted to get this case done with and not be in court in front of the trial judge anymore than absolutely necessary in this case. Consequently, I refused to accede to my client's request and did not ask the court for permission to reopen the case and allow the defendant to testify as he demanded that I do.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Robinson“have the practical effect of granting new trials to all defendants who were able to prove that their attorneys prevented them from testifying.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Robinson“to the end of that sentence. The Haga case out of Division Two of the Court of Appeals, contrary to the majority's assertion that it is”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Robinson
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.