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145 Wash. 2d 116 - State v. Wheeler’s Empirical Analysis

2001

Citation profile

70
cited by 70 later decisions
4
cited 4 times by the Supreme Court
5
states following
December 2011
most recently cited

66 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Apprendi v. New Jersey · Almendarez-Torres v. United States · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Mullaney v. Wilbur · Patterson v. New York

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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[u]nless and until the federal courts extend Apprendi to require such a result, we hold these additional protections are not required under the United States Constitution or by the POAA of the Sentencing Reform Act of 1981(SRA), chapter 9.94A RCW.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “[a]ll that is required by the constitution and the statute is a sentencing hearing where the trial judge decides by a preponderance of the evidence whether the prior convictions exist.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “at least one conviction must have occurred before the commission of any of the other most serious offenses for which the offender was previously convicted.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence

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.