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.
“[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“[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 passagee.g. State v. Shaffer · State v. Ball“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.