57 Wash. 2d 829 - State v. Mode’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently August 2007 · most notably 96 Wash. 2d 902 - State v. Renfro (1982), 94 Wash. 2d 839 - State v. Ermert (1980)
27 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 Wilson v. State · State v. Morden · State v. King · 176 F. Supp. 949 - Johns v. Smyth · Mitchell v. the People
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Mistakes or errors of judgment do not establish the violation of a constitutional right. It is only when the incompetence or neglect of a lawyer, either appointed or employed to defend one charged with crime, results in the violation of a constitutional right by reducing the trial to a farce that a new trial will be granted.”
5 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.