55 Wash. 2d 482 - State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently April 1988 · most notably Commonwealth v. Sheline (1984), Smith v. Rhay (1969)
3 federal appellate · 23 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 Commonwealth v. Torrealba · Murgatroyd v. Dudley · People v. Klukofsky · 139 F. Supp. 367 - United States v. Brandt · Pioneer Sand & Gravel Co. v. International Contract Co.
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... The Washington Court notes that it is common knowledge that the use of aliases is frequently associated in the public mind with so-called `criminal' classes and that the reviewing court could not assume that the jury was not affected by unproved aliases which appeared on the verdict forms and in the information, and any doubt as to the prejudicial effect must be resolved in favor of the defendant.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Rose · State v. Stanhope
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.