46 Wash. App. 433 - State v. Sinclair’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably State v. Stenson (1997), 132 Wash. 2d 668 - State v. Stenson (1997)
33 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 Garber v. United States · Bonanno v. United States · Cashell v. United States · Maynard v. Meachum · McKee v. Harris
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“even when a defendant does not want to appear pro se, if he fails to provide the court with legitimate reasons why he is entitled to reassignment of counsel, the court can require that he either waive or continue with appointed counsel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“failed to articulate any reason he felt justified counsel's replacement, other than his general discomfort with her representation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a vague account of how counsel had lied and had not shown him the State's fingerprint evidence”
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.