49 Wash. 2d 98 - State v. Taft’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently February 1985
13 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. Cimini · State v. McKeen
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“without hope or fear, without improper influence or promise, [and] with full knowledge of his legal and constitutional rights and of the consequences of his act ...”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“pleaded guilty under a misapprehension as to the essential elements of the crime of rape ...”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“did not plead guilty understandingly he was . . . denied a constitutional right.”
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.