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State v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis

1981

Citation profile

100
cited by 100 later decisions
3
states following
September 2015
most recently cited

100 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 100 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably 476 So. 2d 158 - Albritton v. State (1985), 106 Wash. 2d 525 - State v. Oxborrow (1986)

100 state decisions

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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 State v. Schantzen

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

  1. “[Generally in a case in which an upward departure in sentence length is justified, the upper limit will be double the presumptive sentence length. * * * [W]e cannot state that this is an absolute upper limit on the scope of departure because there may well be rare cases in which the facts are so unusually compelling that an even greater degree of departure will be justified.”
    9 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Pearson · 106 Wash. 2d 525 - State v. Oxborrow
  2. “When substantial and compelling factors are present, a sentencing judge may “impose a sentence that is deemed to be more appropriate, reasonable, or equitable than the presumptive sentence.” * * * The trial court is accorded broad discretion and we will not interfere absent a “strong feeling that the sanction imposed exceeds or is less than that ‘proportional to the severity of the offense of conviction and the extent of the offender’s criminal history.’ ””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Felix

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.