State v. Grayson’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably 165 Wash. 2d 913 - State v. Mendoza (2009), State v. Houston-Sconiers (2017)
38 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 Blakely v. Washington · Pont Nemours and Company v. J Collins Securities and Exchange Commission · 105 Wash. 2d 175 - State v. Ammons · State v. Sanwick · Hillis v. State, Dept. of Ecology
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While no defendant is entitled to an exceptional sentence below the standard range, every defendant is entitled to ask the trial court to consider such a sentence and to have the alternative actually considered.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““We do not believe the legislature intended that judges leave their knowledge and understanding of the world behind and enter the courtroom with blank minds. Judges are not expected to leave their common sense behind. Nor do we believe the legislature expected judges to hold hearings on whether fire is hot or water is wet. We prize judges for their knowledge, most of which is obtained outside of the courtroom. Within the statutory and constitutional guidelines, judges may exercise their discretion to give a fair and just sentence.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“`[a]cknowledged' facts include all those facts presented or considered during sentencing that are not objected to by the parties.”
2 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.