94 Wash. 2d 1 - State v. Martin’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 94 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 101 later decisions — most recently December 2020 · most notably 154 Wash. 2d 118 - State v. Hughes (2005), 105 Wash. 2d 175 - State v. Ammons (2005)
6 federal appellate · 94 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 Boykin v. Alabama · North Carolina v. Alford · Brady v. United States · Gregg v. Georgia · Duncan v. State of Louisiana
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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[c]learly the legislature did not anticipate the possibility that an accused might plead guilty to a charge of first degree murder. Thus, it simply failed to provide for that eventuality.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]e have been informed of no statute or rule of court which grants a trial court authority to decline a plea of guilty made competently, knowingly, voluntarily, unconditionally, unequivocally and on advice of counsel.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] defendant may plead not guilty, not guilty by reason of insanity or guilty.”
3 later decisions 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.