State v. Wakefield’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently October 2011 · most notably 134 Wash. 2d 588 - State v. Morley (1998), State v. Sledge (1998)
38 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 110 Wash. 2d 528 - State v. Miller · 108 Wash. 2d 419 - State v. Fisher · 91 Wash. 2d 342 - State v. Boyer · 83 Wash. 2d 594 - State v. Taylor · 117 Wash. 2d 701 - State v. Barnes
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a trial court may not impose a sentence based on the elements of a more serious crime that the State did not charge or prove.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“`prohibits a party from setting up an error at trial and then complaining of it on appeal.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hyder · In Re West“shall not accept a plea of guilty, without first determining that it is made voluntarily, competently and with an understanding of the nature of the charge and the consequences of the plea.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Walsh · State v. Blanks
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.