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← 148 WASH2D 723 - State v. Delgado

State v. Delgado’s Empirical Analysis

2003

Citation profile

59
cited by 59 later decisions
1
states following
July 2019
most recently cited

58 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on State, Dept. of Ecology v. Campbell & Gwinn · Schick v. United States · 105 Wash. 2d 175 - State v. Ammons · State v. Sanwick · 117 Wash. 2d 263 - State v. Smith

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

  1. “cannot add words or clauses to an unambiguous statute when the legislature has chosen not to include that language.”
    13 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “a reading that results in absurd results must be avoided because it will not be presumed that the legislature intended absurd results.”
    8 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “We have repeatedly held that sentencing courts must `look to the statute in effect at the time [the defendant] committed the [current] crimes' when determining defendants' sentences.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage

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.