45 Wash. App. 706 - State v. Poulsen’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently January 2011
9 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3006A (Criminal Justice Act)
Relies on Ake v. Oklahoma · United States v. Flynt · Bourns, Inc. v. Allen-Bradley Co. · 102 Wash. 2d 188 - State v. Kelly · 28 Wash. App. 98 - State v. Edmon
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Diminished capacity instructions are to be given whenever there is substantial evidence of such a condition and such evidence logically and reasonably connects the defendant's alleged mental condition with the inability to possess the required level of culpability to commit the crime charged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“constitutional right of an indigent defendant to the assistance of expert witnesses”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“investigative, expert or other services necessary to an adequate defense”
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.