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.
“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 passagee.g. State v. Thompson · State v. S.M.G.“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“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 passagee.g. State v. Varga · State v. Combs
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.