31 Wash. App. 784 - State v. Chavis’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently June 2007 · most notably 115 Wash. 2d 609 - State v. Dennison (1990), State v. Gethers (1984)
41 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 · Faretta v. California · Holloway v. Arkansas · Von Moltke v. Gillies · People v. Lopez
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“question ultimately is the subjective understanding of the accused rather than the quality or content of the explanation provided”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he judge must make a penetrating and comprehensive examination in order to properly assess that the waiver was made knowingly and intelligently.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`knows what he is doing and his choice is made with eyes open,'”
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.