108 Wash. 2d 491 - State v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently December 2020 · most notably State v. Thang (2002), State v. Sledge (1998)
57 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 · 92 Wash. 2d 576 - Griggs v. Averbeck Realty, Inc. · 108 Wash. 2d 125 - State v. Pascal · 105 Wash. 2d 257 - In Re the Personal Restraint of Myers · State v. Trog
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[pjromote respect for the law by providing punishment which is just.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“An abuse of discretion exists only when no reasonable person would take the position adopted by the trial court.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[l]ack of predisposition and inducement by others to commit the crime is one of the mitigating factors listed under RCW 9.94A.390. Therefore, as a matter of law, this factor justifies the imposition of a nonstandard sentence.”
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.