150 Wash. 2d 135 - State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2021 · most notably 154 Wash. 2d 438 - State v. Evans (2005), In Re Personal Restraint of Lavery (2005)
27 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
Relies on Apprendi v. New Jersey · Almendarez-Torres v. United States · Ring v. Arizona · McKeiver v. Pennsylvania · Oregon v. Hass
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... [in] Almendarez-Torres ... the United States Supreme Court expressly held that prior convictions need not be proved to a jury. Because the Court has not specifically held otherwise since then, we hold that the federal constitution does not require that prior convictions be proved to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“free from change or blemish: PURE, UNBROKEN ... free from assault or trespass: UNTOUCHED, INTACT.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Hicks · State v. Smith“[t]he right of trial by jury shall remain inviolate.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.