State v. Devin’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably State v. Kier (2008), Lunsford v. Saberhagen Holdings, Inc. (2009)
24 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 Herrera v. Collins · 77 Wash. 2d 649 - In Re Stranger Creek · 84 Wash. 2d 498 - State v. Smith · Riehl v. Foodmaker, Inc. · United States v. Oberlin
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e do not preclude courts from abating financial penalties still owed to the county or State, as opposed to restitution owed to victims, where the death of a defendant pending an appeal creates a risk of unfairly burdening the defendant’s heirs. We also do not preclude courts from deciding a criminal appeal on the merits after the appellant has died, if doing so is warranted.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Devlin · State v. Webb“requires a clear showing that an established rule is incorrect and harmful before it is abandoned.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“to the extent that it automatically abates convictions as well as victim compensation orders upon the death of a defendant during a pending appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Webb
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.