95 Wash. 2d 458 - State v. Eisner’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently April 2007
7 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 Chapman v. State of California · 84 Wash. 2d 256 - State v. Carothers · 93 Wash. 2d 186 - State v. Stephens · 93 Wash. 2d 127 - Egede-Nissen v. Crystal Mountain, Inc. · 78 Wash. 2d 491 - State v. Jacobsen
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"A trial judge should not enter into the `fray of combat' nor assume the role of counsel. . . . An isolated instance of such conduct may be deemed harmless error, however, if it cannot be said to violate constitutional bounds of judicial comment. . . . In such instances, potential error may be cured by an instruction, if requested. . . . On the other hand, the cumulative effect of repeated interjections by the court may constitute reversible error."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sivins“'to prevent the jury from being influenced by knowledge conveyed to it by the court of what the court's opinion is on the testimony submitted.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“if the court's attitude toward the merits of the case or the court's evaluation relative to the disputed issue is inferable from the statement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sivins
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.