State v. Carr’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently July 1984
12 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 State v. Montgomery · Jones v. Jones · State v. Devlin · Snider v. Washington Water Power Co. · State v. Arnold
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The entire record discloses that the deputy prosecutor was over-zealous in his studied attempt to parade before the jury incompetent and irrelevant matters. Vigorous counsel need vigorous discipline, at times, at the hands of the trial court. The prosecuting attorney is a quasi-judicial officer and it is his duty to see that one accused of a public offense is given a fair trial. This court has frequently stated the rule as to what constitutes misconduct on the part of counsel. The following cases are decisive on the question. In State v. Devlin, 145 Wash. 44 , 258 Pac. 826 , the prosecutor put the fact before the jury that the defendant’s picture was in the rogue’s gallery. The case was reversed. We said: “ ‘The question involved is that of a fair and impartial trial. In State v. Pryor, 67 Wash. 216 , 121 Pac. 56 , this court 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, w”
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.