123 Wash. 2d 51 - State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably 154 Wash. 2d 118 - State v. Hughes (2005), 126 Wash. 2d 388 - State v. Ritchie (1995)
63 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 · 106 Wash. 2d 514 - State v. Nordby · 109 Wash. 2d 947 - Allingham v. City of Seattle · 108 Wash. 2d 419 - State v. Fisher · 106 Wash. 2d 525 - State v. Oxborrow
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`some extraordinarily serious harm or culpability resulting from multiple offenses which would not otherwise be accounted for in determining the presumptive sentencing range,'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“"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.'"”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Brundage · State v. Alkire“[b]oth public policy and the stated purposes of the SRA demand full punishment for each current offense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Alkire · State v. Reynolds
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.