State v. Cole’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently April 2009 · most notably Snethen v. State (1981), 111 Wash. 2d 872 - State v. Hutchinson (1989)
2 federal appellate · 23 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 Chapman v. State of California · United States v. Cardillo · United States v. Alvarez · State v. Matthews · State v. Shaw
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We believe the defense of diminished capacity waived the privilege here, even if it had existed, for the simple reason it would be incongruous to allow a party to put a matter in issue and then deny access of an opposing party to relevant information concerning it. Our modern concept of criminal trials favors full disclosure of facts, within constitutional limitations, on both sides of the table.... Even the most restrictive authorities would say [defendant] would have waived the privilege by introducing evidence on it....”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Rieflin · Austin v. Alfred“A practicing attorney ... or the stenographer or confidential clerk of any such person, who obtains information by reason of the person’s employment ... shall not be allowed, in giving testimony, to disclose any confidential communication properly entrusted to the person in the person’s professional capacity, and necessary and proper to enable the person to discharge the functions of the person’s office according to the usual course of practice or discipline....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Craney · State v. Tryon“Our modern concept of criminal trials favors full disclosure of facts, within constitutional limitations, on both sides of the table. The 'sporting' theory of justice resulting from concealment and surprise is no longer the rule.”
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.