11 Wash. App. 216 - State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently July 2005 · most notably 6 Kan. App. 2d 688 - State v. Puckett (1981), 85 Wash. 2d 45 - State v. Cosner (1975)
27 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 Simmons v. United States · Sheppard v. Maxwell · Alexander v. Louisiana · 73 Wash. 2d 616 - State v. Martin · 81 Wash. 2d 628 - State v. Frazier
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is fundamental that an accused must be informed of the charge he is to meet at trial and that he cannot be tried for an offense not charged. U.S. Const. amend. 6; Const. art. 1, § 22 (amendment 10); State v. Frazier, 76 Wn.2d 373 , 456 P.2d 352 (1969).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“it is required that the prosecution allege . . . the `factor [which] aggravates [the] offense and causes [a] defendant to be subject to a greater punishment'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Board to fix duration of confinement—Minimum terms prescribed for certain cases. Within six months after the admission of a convicted person to the penitentiary, reformatory, or such other state penal institution as may hereafter be established, the board of prison terms and paroles shall fix the duration of his confinement. The term of imprisonment so fixed shall not exceed the maximum provided by law for the offense of which he was convicted or the maximum fixed by the court where the law does not provide for a maximum term. "The following limitations are placed on the board of prison terms and paroles with regard to fixing the duration of confinement in certain cases, notwithstanding any provisions of law specifying a lesser sentence, to wit: "(1) For a person not previously convicted of a felony but armed with a deadly weapon at the time of the commission of his offense, the duration of confinement shall not be fixed at less than five years. "(2) . . . "The words 'deadly weapon,' as used in this section include, but are not limited to, any instrument known as a blackjack, sling shot, billy, sand club, sandbag, metal knuckles, any dirk, dagger, pistol, revolver, or any other firearm, any knife having a blade longer than three inches, any razor with an unguarded blade, and any metal pipe or bar used or intended to be used as a club, any explosive, and any weapon containing poisonous or injurious gas. "(4) Any person convicted of embezzling funds from any institution of pub”
1 later decision 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.