8 Wash. 2d 630 - State v. Levy’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently September 1994
4 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 State v. Wroth · State v. Gaines · State v. Coella · State v. Furth · State v. Birch
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Persons accused of crime have the right to be represented by counsel whose usefulness shall not be impaired by any unfavorable remark or critical attitude on the part of the trial judge in the presence of the jurors, who are quick to observe, and apt to receive, hostile impressions which deprive them of that fair and unbiased mental attitude which every juror should at all times possess in order to do justice between the state and the defendant at the bar. ... As was said in State v. Phillips, 59 Wash. 252 , 109 Pac. 1047 [(1910)]: " 'The aid of counsel is guaranteed by the constitution to every person accused of crime, and this is universally recognized as one of the surest safeguards against injustice and oppression. Any conduct or statement on the part of the court that tends to impair the influence or destroy the usefulness of counsel is palpable and manifest error.’”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The most obvious, if not the only, inference to be drawn from the trial court’s refusal to take counsel’s check being that the court distrusted counsel, the incident in question clearly belongs within the class of incidents the natural tendency of which would be to result in prejudice. In such a situation, this court should not speculate as to the actual effect of the trial court’s actions and remarks, and we are therefore constrained to hold that the matter constituted reversible error.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“were not 'reasonably calculated to influence the judgment of the jury’.” Majority, at 522. Whether the judge intended prejudice is not the standard articulated by this court in Levy . Rather, the court held that”
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.