52 Wash. App. 796 - State v. Chavez’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently September 2000
14 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 110 Wash. 2d 74 - State v. Jones · 41 Wash. App. 669 - State v. Hartley · 46 Wash. App. 426 - State v. Knowles · 50 Wash. App. 578 - State v. Harper
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(6) In the case of multiple prior convictions, for the purpose of computing the offender score, count all convictions separately, except: (c) In the case of multiple prior convictions for offenses committed before July 1, 1986, for the purpose of computing the offender score, count all adult convictions served concurrently as one offense . . . Use the conviction for the offense that yields the highest offender score.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a defendant who had committed and been sentenced separately for several serious crimes over a period of years, but who happened to serve overlapping prison terms for them at the same time, would be deemed to have committed only one offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[O]ne of the primary purposes of the act... is to ensure that punishment for a criminal offense is proportionate to the seriousness of the offense and the offender's criminal history.”
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.