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← 55 P.3d 609 - State v. Lopez

State v. Lopez’s Empirical Analysis

2002

Citation profile

37
cited by 37 later decisions
1
states following
April 2019
most recently cited

37 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 105 Wash. 2d 175 - State v. Ammons · State v. Thorne · State v. Sanwick · State v. Ford · 134 Wash. 2d 588 - State v. Morley

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

  1. “[A] remand for an evidentiary hearing is appropriate only when the defendant has failed to specifically object to the State's evidence of the existence or classification of a prior conviction.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “because it is `inconsistent with the principles underlying our system of justice to sentence a person on the basis of crimes that the State either could not or chose not to prove.'”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “[t]he best evidence of a prior conviction is a certified copy of the judgment”
    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.