48 Wash. App. 671 - State v. Clinton’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently April 2003
22 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 106 Wash. 2d 514 - State v. Nordby · 106 Wash. 2d 525 - State v. Oxborrow · 106 Wash. 2d 547 - State v. Armstrong · 13 Wash. App. 386 - State v. Bresolin · State v. Van Gorden
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[ijf the victim of an offense was particularly vulnerable due to advanced age, then that fact may, as a matter of law, be used to justify the imposition of an exceptional sentence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The practical effect of this standard is to guarantee that an appellate court will 'rarely, if ever' overturn an exceptional sentence because of its length.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“commensurate with the punishment imposed on others committing similar offenses”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.