118 Wash. 2d 773 - State v. Lessley’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently September 2023 · most notably 126 Wash. 2d 136 - State v. Brett (1995), 125 Wash. 2d 378 - State v. Maxfield (1994)
76 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 109 Wash. 2d 207 - State v. Dunaway · 118 Wash. 2d 649 - State v. Collicott · 112 Wash. 2d 399 - State v. Collicott · 59 Wash. App. 461 - State v. Lessley · 59 Wash. App. 447 - State v. Dunbar
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Exception of the Washington Sentencing Reform Act: Making the Punishment Fit the CrimesState v. Collicott, 112 Wash.2d 399 , 771 P.2d 1137 (1989), 65 WASH. L.REV. 397, 402-03 (1990). State v. Lessley, 118 Wash.2d 773, 778 , 827 P.2d 996 (1992). ¶ 42 We construe RCW 9.94A.589(1)(a) narrowly to disallow most assertions of”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“`Same criminal conduct' means two or more crimes that require the same criminal intent, are committed at the same time and place, and involve the same victim.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Except as provided in (b) or (c) of this subsection, whenever a person is to be sentenced for two or more current offenses, the sentence range for each current offense shall be determined by using all other current and prior convictions as if they were prior convictions for the purpose of the offender score .... Sentences imposed under this subsection shall be served concurrently. Consecutive sentences may only be imposed under the exceptional sentence provisions of RCW 9.94A.535.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
How this case has been treated — in progress
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