111 Wash. 2d 892 - State v. Mejia’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently October 2015 · most notably State v. Thomas (1999), State v. Thein (1999)
26 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 Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · Anthony v. United States · 106 Wash. 2d 54 - State v. Gunwall · Air Line Pilots Ass'n, International v. Thurston
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Only `substantial and compelling' factors other than those necessarily considered by the Legislature in computing the presumptive range of the offense will justify an extraordinary sentence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Thomas“Reasonableness and common sense are key ingredients in discovering the absence or presence of probable cause.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Maxwell“intended to communicate a `setup' to the police.”
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.