77 Wash. 2d 415 - State v. Nicholson’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently July 2011 · most notably 90 Wash. 2d 443 - State v. Workman (1978), State v. Richmond (1976)
30 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 37 Wash. 2d 759 - State v. Meyer · 70 Wash. 2d 365 - State v. Lung · In re Robinson · 36 Wash. 2d 641 - State v. Leach · Matter of Robinson
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]n overt act is ... a direct, ineffectual act done toward commission of a crime[.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“We hold that canon 9 [canons of professional ethics] does not prohibit a prosecutor from using as evidence in the trial of a criminal case statements which were freely and voluntarily given by a person under arrest and detention to an investigating officer after that person had consulted his attorney and had been made aware of his right to remain silent or to have his attorney present when the statements were given.”
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.