70 Wash. 2d 430 - State v. Silvers’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently April 2011 · most notably 171 Wash. 2d 292 - State v. Robinson (2011), State v. Lord (2007)
31 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 68 Wash. 2d 416 - State v. Baxter · 63 Wash. 2d 94 - Ledgering v. State · State v. Dersiy · 57 Wash. 2d 829 - State v. Mode · 37 Wash. 2d 431 - State v. Robbins
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An attorney who has been admitted to practice law in the state of Washington is presumed to be of sufficient skill and learning to adequately defend a person accused of a crime.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Failure to challenge the admissibility of proffered evidence constitutes a waiver of any legal objection to its being considered as proper evidence by the trier of the facts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`Mistakes or errors of judgment do not establish the violation of a constitutional right.' The constitution guarantees a defendant a fair trial, not a perfect trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lord
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.