State v. Lewis

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “a prosecutor has wide latitude in closing argument to draw reasonable inferences from the evidence and may freely comment on witness credibility based on the evidence”
• “a prosecutor has wide latitude in closing argument to draw reasonable inferences from the evidence and may freely comment on witness credibility based on the evidence”
• \Merely asking questions of the jury does not rise to the level of misstating the law or misrepresenting the role of the jury and the burden of proof as in Fleming.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• In re the Personal Restraint of Glasmann
  Washington Supreme Court· 2012-10-18· cited 436×
• State v. Lindsay
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2012-11-07· cited 18×
• State Of Washington v. Eli Mansour
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2020-08-24· cited 15×
• United States v. Tyren Cervenak
  Sixth Circuit· 2025-04-02· cited 6×
• State Of Washington, V. Tedgy C. Wright
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2021-08-09· cited 3×
• State v. Jones
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2011-08-30
• State Of Washington v. Kevin Albert Rivera
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2017-03-14
• State Of Washington, V. Tedgy C. Wright
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2021-07-06

Cites

21 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• State v. McFarland
  Washington Supreme Court· 1995-09-13· cited 2,396×
• State v. Stenson
  Washington Supreme Court· 1997-07-24· cited 921×
• State v. Hendrickson
  Washington Supreme Court· 1996-05-09· cited 744×
• State v. Brown
  Washington Supreme Court· 1997-07-24· cited 632×
• State v. Thomas
  Washington Supreme Court· 1987-10-08· cited 629×
• State v. Warren
  Washington Supreme Court· 2008-11-20· cited 511×
• State v. Swan
  Washington Supreme Court· 1990-06-22· cited 447×
• State v. Gregory
  Washington Supreme Court· 2006-11-30· cited 392×
• State v. Henderson
  Washington Supreme Court· 1990-06-14· cited 173×
• State v. Acosta
  Washington Supreme Court· 1984-05-24· cited 168×
• State v. Cienfuegos
  Washington Supreme Court· 2001-07-05· cited 126×
• State v. Fleming
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1996-08-26· cited 107×
• State v. Hodges
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2003-10-06· cited 60×
• State v. Lewis
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2010-03-02· cited 57×
• State v. Powell
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2009-05-12· cited 47×
• State v. Phelps
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2002-09-13· cited 46×
• State v. Woods
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2007-04-24· cited 32×
• State v. Horton
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2003-05-20· cited 31×
• State v. Dyson
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1997-12-08· cited 26×