116 Wash. 2d 238 - State v. Stephens’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently September 2013 · most notably 154 Wash. 2d 118 - State v. Hughes (2005), 116 Wash. 2d 777 - State v. Batista (1991)
62 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 · 108 Wash. 2d 419 - State v. Fisher · 106 Wash. 2d 525 - State v. Oxborrow · 108 Wash. 2d 458 - State v. McAlpin · 51 Wash. App. 274 - State v. Tunell
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"This inquiry [whether there are substantial and compelling reasons justifying an exceptional sentence] is automatically satisfied whenever the `defendant's high offender score is combined with multiple current offenses so that a standard sentence would result in "free" crimes crimes for which there is no additional penalty.'"”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“The operation of the multiple offense policy of RCW 9.94A.589 results in a presumptive sentence that is clearly too lenient in light of the purpose of this chapter, as expressed in RCW 9.94A.010.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Borg · State v. Wilson“some extraordinarily serious harm or culpability resulting from multiple offenses ... would not otherwise be accounted for in determining the presumptive sentencing range.”
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.