84 Wash. 2d 90 - State v. Eller’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably State v. Woods (2001), 94 Wash. 2d 208 - State v. Edwards (1980)
40 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 Ungar v. Sarafite · 73 Wash. 2d 372 - State v. Weiss · 51 Wash. 2d 830 - State v. Reynolds · 74 Wash. 2d 185 - State v. Cadena · State v. McNeil
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he decision to deny the defendant a continuance will be disturbed on appeal only upon a showing that the defendant was prejudiced or that the result of the trial would likely have been different had the motion been granted.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“qualitative impact or significant effect upon the ultimate result.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]here are no mechanical tests for deciding when the denial of a continuance violates due process, inhibits a defense, or conceivably projects a different result; and, that the answer must be found in the circumstances present in the particular case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Downing
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.