82 Wash. App. 327 - State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently February 2012
3 federal appellate · 14 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 Travaglia v. Pennsylvania · 110 Wash. 2d 577 - State v. Rice · 117 Wash. 2d 479 - State v. Blair · 76 Wash. 2d 449 - State v. Gefeller · 73 Wash. 2d 372 - State v. Weiss
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he prosecutor's comments [made during closing argument] about the defendant's unique opportunity to be present at trial and hear all the testimony against him impermissibly infringed his exercise of his Sixth Amendment rights to be present at trial and confront witnesses”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Martin“The decision to limit trial testimony is within the broad discretion of the trial court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“an exculpatory story consistent with the available facts”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Miller
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.