122 Wash. 2d 502 - State v. Gaines’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably 138 Wash. 2d 466 - State v. Sweet (1999), State v. Gore (2001)
44 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 117 Wash. 2d 156 - State v. Allert · 120 Wash. 2d 913 - State v. Hutsell · 115 Wash. 2d 350 - State v. Estrella · 112 Wash. 2d 606 - State v. Pennington
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f the sentencing court finds that an exceptional sentence outside the standard range should be imposed in accordance with [former] RCW 9.94A.120(2), the sentence is subject to review only as provided for in [former] RCW 9.94A.210(4).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Law“which the court may consider in the exercise of its discretion to impose an exceptional sentence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Fowler“are illustrative only and are not intended to be exclusive reasons for exceptional sentences.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Law
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.