19 Wash. App. 35 - State v. Lewis’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2001 · most notably Barry v. New Jersey (1981), 101 Wash. 2d 745 - State v. Laureano (1984)
26 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Wong Sun v. United States · Malloy v. Hogan · Kirby v. Illinois · McNabb v. United States
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As a general rule, the trial courts have wide discretionary powers in conducting a trial and dealing with irregularities which arise. ... A mistrial should be granted only when "nothing the trial court could have said or done would have remedied the harm done to the defendant." ... In other words, a mistrial should be granted only when the defendant has been so prejudiced that nothing short of a new trial can insure that defendant will be tried fairly. . . . Only those errors which may have affected the outcome of the trial are prejudicial.”
2 later decisions 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.