127 Wash. 2d 281 - State v. McCraw’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
114 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 114 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably Davis v. Department of Licensing (1999), In Re Custody of Smith (2000)
114 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 Wrenn v. Ohio Department of Mental Health · 105 Wash. 2d 175 - State v. Ammons · 88 Wash. 2d 221 - State v. Wanrow · State v. Sanwick · 118 Wash. 2d 551 - State v. Elgin
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 114 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In judicial interpretation of statutes, the first rule is `the court should assume that the legislature means exactly what it says. Plain words do not require construction'.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage“In the case of multiple prior convictions, for the purpose of computing the offender score, count all convictions separately, except: (a) Prior adult offenses which were found, under RCW 9.94A.400(1)(a), to encompass the same criminal conduct, shall be counted as one offense, the offense that yields the highest offender score. The current sentencing court shall determine with respect to other prior adult offenses for which sentences were served concurrently whether those offenses shall be counted as one offense or as separate offenses, and if the court finds that they shall be counted as one offense, then the offense that yields the highest offender score shall be used [.]”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Johnson · State v. Bolar“In the case of multiple prior convictions for offenses committed before July 1, 1986, for the purpose of computing the offender score, count all adult convictions served concurrently as one offense, and count all juvenile convictions entered on the same date as one offense. Use the conviction for the offense that yields the highest offender score.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Keller · State v. Keller
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.