70 Wash. 2d 969 - State v. Alvis’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently March 2007
24 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 Johnson v. State of New Jersey · Culombe v. Connecticut · Haynes v. Washington · 65 Wash. 2d 808 - State v. Darst · 67 Wash. 2d 238 - State v. Allen
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n the absence of an adjudication of insanity or incompetency, and in the absence of any action by the state or its officers which could be said to make a confession involuntary, a confession by a mentally ill defendant should be admissible with the defendant at liberty to introduce evidence of any circumstances that might affect its voluntariness or its probative value.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"There is no evidence that these tranquilizers were more than the usual nerve depressant, or that they in any way affected the intellectual processes of the defendant."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“an attempt, with unlawful force, to inflict bodily injury upon another, accompanied with the apparent present ability to give effect to the attempt if not prevented.”
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.