State v. Law’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

13 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Former RCW 9.94A.120(2) provided: The court may impose a sentence outside the standard sentence range for an offense if it finds, considering the purpose of this chapter, that there are substantial and compelling reasons justifying an exceptional sentence. Former RCW 9.94A.120(2) (emphasis added). [13] ¶ 65 Former RCW 9.94A.390 contained a list of”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Law · State v. Alvarado

2. “The trial court may impose an aggravated exceptional sentence without a finding of fact by a jury under the following circumstances: .... (b) The defendant's prior unscored misdemeanor or prior unscored foreign criminal history results in a presumptive sentence that is clearly too lenient in light of the purpose of this chapter, as expressed in RCW 9.94A.010. (c) The defendant has committed multiple current offenses and the defendant's high offender score results in some of the current offenses going unpunished.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Alvarado

3. “Alternatives to total confinement are available for offenders with sentences of one year or less. These alternatives include the following sentence conditions that the court may order as substitutes for total confinement: ... for offenders convicted of nonviolent offenses only, eight hours of community service may be substituted for one day of total confinement, with a maximum conversion limit of two hundred forty hours or thirty days.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Law