108 Wash. 2d 458 - State v. McAlpin’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 86 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably State v. Pirtle (1995), 126 Wash. 2d 136 - State v. Brett (1995)
3 federal appellate · 86 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 106 Wash. 2d 514 - State v. Nordby · 106 Wash. 2d 525 - State v. Oxborrow · 106 Wash. 2d 547 - State v. Armstrong · 45 Wash. App. 528 - State v. Payne · 43 Wash. App. 340 - State v. Harp
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Facts that establish the elements of a more serious crime or additional crimes may not be used to go outside the presumptive sentence range except upon stipulation or when specifically provided for in RCW 9.94A.390(2) (c), (d), and (e).”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage“would operate to erase from the record the true circumstances of an offender's past.... Society is entitled to view the long-term repeater of crimes from an early age as a greater threat and as requiring longer institutional supervision than one whose criminal proclivities are not as deeply ingrained.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“. McAlpin, 108 Wn.2d at 462 ; Nordby, 106 Wn.2d at 517-18 . Second, the reviewing court must independently determine whether, as a matter of law, the trial court's reasons justify an exceptional sentence. RCW 9.94A.210(4)(a); McAlpin, 108 Wn.2d at 463 ; Nordby, 106 Wn.2d at 518 . There must be”
4 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.