State v. Ferguson’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
13
cited by 13 later decisions
1
states following
January 2011
most recently cited
13 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Evans v. United States · 109 Wash. 2d 207 - State v. Dunaway · 106 Wash. 2d 514 - State v. Nordby · State v. Copeland · 109 Wash. 2d 947 - Allingham v. City of Seattle
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[F]actors inherent in the crimeinherent in the sense that they were necessarily considered by the Legislature (in establishing the standard sentence range for the offense) and do not distinguish the defendant's behavior from that inherent in all crimes of that typemay not be relied upon to justify an exceptional sentence....' An element of the charged offense may not be used to justify an exceptional sentence. An exceptional sentence is not justified by mere reference to the very facts which constituted the elements of the offense proven at trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he court may impose a sentence outside the standard sentence range for that offense if it finds, considering the purpose of this chapter, that there are substantial and compelling reasons justifying an exceptional sentence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Stubbs · State v. Tili“When I look, I see that the evidence is clear.... I believe in total that you were, and may still be, a very angry person, a person that had a mission a mission to get even, to be vindictive, to bring down, if at all possible, those who you, quite truthfully, characterized as people who loved you. And I truly believe they did. And I think many of them still do. . . . . [Y]ou had no care for human life, and I think including your own. You attempted, by a form of intelligent conspiracy, to invoke yourself upon others. In doing so you caused people to rely, to depend, to again commit to you.... And yet what you gave to some is totally a death sentence.[ [51] ]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ferguson
How this case has been treated — in progress
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