State v. Finlayson’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably State v. Bond (2015), State v. Lee (2006)
41 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 Strickland v. Washington · McMann v. Richardson · State v. Buggs · State v. Templin · United States v. Hall
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[mlust have some significance independent of the other crime in that it makes the other crime substantially easier of commission or substantially lessens the risk of detection.'”
11 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Diaz · State v. Wilder“(3) A defendant may be convicted of an offense included in the offense charged but may not be convicted of both the offense charged and the included offense. An offense is so included when: (a) It is established by proof of the same or less than all the facts required to establish the commission of the offense charged; or (b) It constitutes an attempt, solicitation, conspiracy, or form of preparation to commit the offense charged or an offense otherwise included therein; or (c) It is specifically designated by a statute as a lesser included offense.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Jack · State v. Finlayson“[TJhe defense can object that charges merge at any time, either during trial, or following the conviction on a motion to vacate, but the trial court should rule on the objection only if the jury returns convictions.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Smith · State v. Ellis
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.