State v. Varga’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

44 state decisions

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

1. “that the 2002 SRA amendments properly and unambiguously require that sentencing courts include defendants' previously `washed out' prior convictions when calculating defendants' offender scores at sentencing for crimes committed on or after the amendments' effective date.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Failey · State v. Varga

2. “(b) A conviction may be removed from a defendant's criminal history only if it is vacated pursuant to RCW 9.96.060, 9.94A.640, 9.95.240, or a similar out-of-state statute, or if the conviction has been vacated pursuant to a governor's pardon. (c) The determination of a defendant's criminal history is distinct from the determination of an offender score. A prior conviction that was not included in an offender score calculated pursuant to a former version of the sentencing reform act remains part of the defendant's criminal history.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Varga · In RE LaHAPELLE

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
   e.g. State v. Varga · State v. Combs