State v. Suleiman’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently April 2021 · most notably 172 Wash. 2d 671 - State v. Gordon (2011), State v. Flores (2008)
30 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 924
Relies on United States v. Booker · Apprendi v. New Jersey · Blakely v. Washington · Shepard v. United States · Washington v. Recuenco
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]henever a sentence outside the standard sentence range is imposed, the court shall set forth the reasons for its decision in written findings of fact and conclusions of law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gordon · State v. Hale“left only with the legal conclusion of whether the facts alleged and found were sufficiently substantial and compelling to warrant an exceptional sentence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gordon · State v. Hale“are substantial and compelling reasons justifying an exceptional sentence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gordon · State v. Hale
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.