27 Wash. 2d 186 - State v. Lindsey’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently November 1985
11 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. Steele · State v. Montgomery · State v. Smith · Jones v. Jones · State v. Devlin
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.
“Judge Mitchell stated, in the case of State v. Devlin, supra [ 145 Wash. 44 , 258 Pac. 826 ]: “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 he tried at all, whether he he guilty or not, has his picture in the rogue’s gallery or not. . . . ” (Italics mine.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[Preference to specific acts of misconduct cannot be made to expose the witness to ridicule or to discredit him in the minds of the jury. . . . The state did not attempt to prove former convictions indicated by the questions. In this day in which criminal records are quite complete and available to all prosecuting officials, there is no excuse for asking questions concerning former convictions at random.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In the case at bar, the deputy prosecuting attorney had a right to ask the defendant concerning his conviction and the term of his sentence. The state did not have proof of any other conviction. There could be only one result of the questions concerning other crimes. That was to hold the defendant up to ridicule and to discredit him in the minds of the jury.”
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.