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State v. Lopez’s Empirical Analysis

2001

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
January 2011
most recently cited

4 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 94 Wash. 2d 634 - State v. Delmarter · Nagy v. United States · In re Galloway · 121 Wash. 2d 333 - State v. Joy · Jones v. Sisters of Providence in Wash.

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

  1. “[T]he trial court does not have inherent authority to suspend or defer a sentence; the Legislature must grant the court such power. As a consequence, the terms of the statutes that grant courts the authority to defer the imposition or execution of a sentence are mandatory; any court action that fails to follow the statutory provisions is void.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “court shall not suspend or defer the imposition or the execution of the disposition.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “at least fourteen days before commencement of trial. . . .”
    1 later decision 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.