71 Wash. 2d 470 - State v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently July 2014 · most notably 109 Wash. 2d 222 - State v. Thomas (1987), 105 Wash. 2d 692 - State v. Kwan Fai Mak (1986)
37 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 59 Wash. 2d 1 - State v. Lei · 70 Wash. 2d 69 - State v. Forza · 69 Wash. 2d 921 - State v. Roberts · 70 Wash. 2d 941 - State v. Stockman
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“After considering the entire record, can it be said that the accused was afforded an effective representation and a fair and impartial trial?”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“After considering the entire record, can it be said that the accused was afforded an effective representation and a fair and impartial trial? . . . the method and manner of preparing and presenting a case will vary with different counsel. The effectiveness or the competence of counsel cannot be measured by the result obtained. Some defendants are, in fact, guilty and no amount of forensic skill is going to bring about an acquittal.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“within the area of judgment and trial strategy and as such rests exclusively in trial counsel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ashue
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.