55 Wash. App. 668 - State v. Taplin’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently November 2011
17 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 111 Wash. 2d 872 - State v. Hutchinson · 92 Wash. 2d 35 - State Ex Rel. McDonald v. Whatcom County District Court · 111 Wash. 2d 784 - Armstrong v. Safeco Insurance
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) If an offender violates any condition or requirement of a sentence, the court may modify its order of judgment and sentence and impose further punishment in accordance with this section. (2) If an offender fails to comply with any of the requirements or conditions of a sentence the following provisions apply: .... (b) ... If the court finds that the violation has occurred, it may order the offender to be confined for a period not to exceed sixty days for each violation, and may (i) convert a term of partial confinement to total confinement, .... Any time served in confinement awaiting a hearing on noncompliance shall be credited against any confinement order by the court....[ [36] ]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[h]ere, there were only two violations of conditions of Taplin's sentences and, therefore, the trial court may not impose more than 120 days of confinement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Mahone“The parties' ability to argue two interpretations of a statute does not necessarily render the statute ambiguous.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.