20 Wash. App. 705 - State v. Kelly’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently July 1996
12 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 Pollard v. United States · 67 Cal. 2d 105 - People v. Hill · Terlikowski v. United States · Cary v. State · 34 Cal. App. 3d 8 - People v. Hartsell
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the absence of anything in the record to the contrary, an appellate court must assume that any delay in sentencing was for a lawful purpose in the orderly process of handling a case. Passage of time alone does not bar imposition of sentence or require a defendant's discharge.”
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.