120 Wash. 2d 913 - State v. Hutsell’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably 122 Wash. 2d 1 - Matter of Personal Restraint of Young (1993), 126 Wash. 2d 136 - State v. Brett (1995)
58 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 Time, Inc. v. Bon Air Hotel, Inc. · 109 Wash. 2d 207 - State v. Dunaway · 107 Wash. 2d 388 - Willener v. Sweeting · 109 Wash. 2d 947 - Allingham v. City of Seattle · 98 Wash. 2d 789 - State v. Crenshaw
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`circumstances that led to the crime, even though falling short of establishing a legal defense, [that] justify distinguishing the conduct'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“as a matter of law, the stated reasons do not justify the exceptional sentence; or . . . under the "abuse of discretion" standard, the sentence imposed is clearly excessive or too lenient.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he mitigating circumstances enumerated in RCW 9.94A.390 represent failed defenses[,]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Jeannotte
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.