State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Apprendi v. New Jersey · Blakely v. Washington · 117 Wash. 2d 93 - State v. Kjorsvik · National Union Fire Insurance Co. of Pittsburgh v. Textron Financial Corp. · 113 Wash. 2d 679 - State v. Leach
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) Any person having been released by court order or admitted to bail with knowledge of the requirement of a subsequent personal appearance before any court of this state, or of the requirement to report to a correctional facility for service of sentence, and who fails to appear or who fails to surrender for service of sentence as required is guilty of bail jumping. ". . . . "(3) Bail jumping is: "(a) A class A felony if the person was held for, charged with, or convicted of murder in the first degree; "(b) A class B felony if the person was held for, charged with, or convicted of a class A felony other than murder in the first degree; "(c) A class C felony if the person was held for, charged with, or convicted of a class B or class C felony; "(d) A misdemeanor if the person was held for, charged with, or convicted of a gross misdemeanor or misdemeanor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Williams“BAIL JUMPING, committed as follows: That the defendant, on or about the 4th day of December, 2003, being charged with Possession of a Controlled Substance, a felony . . . and knowing of the requirement of the subsequent personal appearance, did fail to appear as required, proscribed by RCW 9A. 76.170(1), a felony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Williams“[T]he penalty classification is relevant only to the sentence to be imposed on conviction, a topic the jury is not even permitted to consider in its deliberations. It is not an element of the crime, so there was no infirmity in the information or the `to convict' instruction here.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Williams
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.