54 Wash. App. 408 - State v. Strauss’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently November 2003 · most notably State v. Copeland (1996), 119 Wash. 2d 401 - State v. Strauss (1992)
48 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 · 108 Wash. 2d 419 - State v. Fisher · 108 Wash. 2d 125 - State v. Pascal · 46 Wash. App. 388 - State v. Gonzales · 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“gratuitous violence, or other conduct which inflicts physical, psychological or emotional pain as an end in itself.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“" (2) Aggravating Circumstances "(a) The defendant's conduct during the commission of the current offense manifested deliberate cruelty to the victim."”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“of a kind not usually associated with the commission of the offense in question.”
3 later decisions 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.