91 Wash. 2d 603 - State v. Gilcrist’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably 105 Wash. 2d 692 - State v. Kwan Fai Mak (1986), 101 Wash. 2d 664 - State v. Rupe (1984)
73 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Chapman v. State of California · Bruton v. United States · Estelle v. Williams · Rogers v. Richmond
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A mistrial should be granted only when `nothing the trial court could have said or done would have remedied the harm done to the defendant.' In other words, a mistrial should be granted only when the defendant has been so prejudiced that nothing short of a new trial can insure that defendant will be tried fairly.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“nothing the trial court could have said or done would have remedied the harm done to the defendant.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“evidence: The missing evidence was not necessary for a prima facie defense, and, at best, only would establish circumstantially appellants' innocence. Appellants' due process rights were not violated by the unavailability of the lost evidence. In this case, the lost or destroyed tape recordings were not”
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.