State v. Devlin’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently January 2015 · most notably 36 Wash. 2d 367 - State v. Goebel (1950), 49 Wash. 2d 66 - State v. Case (1956)
3 federal appellate · 39 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 People v. . Molineux · People v. . Sharp · State v. Ferrone · State v. Whitfield · State v. Montgomery
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ' The question involved is that of a fair and impartial trial. In State v. Pryor, 67 Wash. 216 , 121 Pac. 56 , this court has said: “ ‘A fair trial consists not alone in an observation of the naked forms of law, but in a recognition and a just application of its principles.’ “It is the law of the land, a right vouchsafed by the direct written law of the people of the state. It partakes of the character of fair play which pervades all the activities of the American people, whether in their sports, business, society, religion or the law. In the maintenance of government to the extent it is committed to the courts and lawyers in the administration of the criminal law, it is just as essential that one accused of crime shall have a fair trial as it is that he be tried at all, whether he be guilty or not, has his picture in the rogue’s gallery or not. In the Pryor case just referred to, it was said that it must be remembered, as stated in Hurd v. People, 25 Mich. 404 , 'that unfair means may happen to result in doing justice to the prisoner in the particular case, yet, justice so attained is unjust and dangerous to the whole community.’ ””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““ . . . it is just as essential that one accused of crime shall have a fair trial as it is that he be tried at all, whether he be guilty or not, has his picture in the rogue’s gallery or not. ...” “. . . It was too well calculated to lead the jury into the belief that they were dealing with a criminal already so notorious as to demand the vigilance and services of the police and detectives of the country, and thereby lessen the jury’s sense of responsibility or excuse that calm and faithful deliberation which should, at all times, prevail in the trial of one accused of such atrocious crimes.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The safeguards which the wisdom of ages has thrown around persons accused of crime cannot be disregarded, and such officers are reminded that a fearless, impartial discharge of public duty, accompanied by a spirit of fairness toward the accused, is the highest commendation they can hope for. Their devotion to duty is not measured like the prowess of the savage, by the number of their victims. ’ ’”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Carr · State v. Carr
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.