60 Wash. 2d 32 - State v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently October 2014 · most notably 105 Wash. 2d 692 - State v. Kwan Fai Mak (1986), State v. Sims (1974)
39 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. Melton · State Ex Rel. Foster-Wyman Lumber Co. v. Superior Court · People v. Canfield · Miller v. Ashcraft · State v. Miller
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.
“The trial judge, by his very presence, is in a favored position. It has been reiterated in appeals from orders granting new trials in both civil and criminal cases that a much stronger showing is required to overturn an order granting the new trial than denying a new trial. The question is: Did the respondents have a fair trial? The trial judge thought that they did not. The question is not whether this court would have decided otherwise in the first instance, but whether the trial judge was justified in reaching his conclusion. In that respect, he has a very wide discretion.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“This court has never condoned, but often criticized a witness being intoxicated with eagerness in an all out effort to obtain a conviction. . . . The witness . . . is one with long experience in law enforcement . . . Surely, he was conscious of the rules of evidence that prohibit such actions of a witness.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Pure questions of law offer no difficulty, but when ... the order is granted because of the very atmosphere of the courtroom, there is unanimity of judicial opinion that an appellate court will not substitute its judgment for that of the trial court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Griffin
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.