14 Wash. App. 432 - State v. Darnell’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
June 1981
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · 71 Wash. 2d 372 - State v. Green · 59 Wash. 2d 1 - State v. Lei · 72 Wash. 2d 737 - State v. Harrison · 69 Wash. 2d 921 - State v. Roberts
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[P] artisan advocacy is a form of public service so long as it aids the process of adjudication; it ceases to be when it hinders that process, when it misleads, distorts and obfuscates, when it renders the task of the deciding tribunal not easier, but more difficult.”
1 later decision 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.