52 Wash. 2d 721 - State v. Griffith’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1998 · most notably Beck v. Washington (1962), 105 Wash. 2d 692 - State v. Kwan Fai Mak (1986)
10 federal appellate · 25 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. Lindberg · State v. Peeples · State v. Stratton · State v. Bridgham · State v. Pierce
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Since this is a capital case where the accused was defended by counsel appointed by the court, we will not dismiss the contention now urged on behalf of the appellant by invoking the procedural rule to which we ordinarily adhere, that an argument not presented in the trial court will not be heard for the first time on appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[W]e are convinced that the verdict of the jury . . . cannot be attributed to the alleged inexperience or inability of counsel to properly defend the rights of the accused . . . but . . . [is] the result of the overwhelming evidence that the appellant committed the . . . crime of which he was accused.”
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.