46 Wash. App. 288 - State v. Bembry’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 105 Wash. 2d 175 - State v. Ammons · State v. Sanwick · 95 Wash. 2d 551 - In Re the Personal Restraint of Bush · 26 Wash. App. 486 - In Re the Personal Restraint of Bush · 106 Wash. 2d 417 - State v. Binder
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] defendant has no right to contest a prior conviction at a subsequent sentencing. To allow an attack at that point would unduly and unjustifiably overburden the sentencing court. The defendant has available, more appropriate arenas for the determination of the constitutional validity of a prior conviction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Thompson“[i]n [ Ammons ], . . . the Supreme Court severely restricted a defendant's ability to mount a collateral attack on a prior conviction at a sentencing hearing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Thompson“conviction which without further elaboration evidences infirmities of a constitutional magnitude.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Thompson
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.