57 Wash. App. 866 - State v. Coppin’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently October 2021 · most notably State v. Sledge (1998), State v. Talley (1998)
25 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 Santobello v. New York · United States v. Benchimol · United States v. Brown · 22 Wash. App. 107 - In Re the Personal Restraint of Palodichuk · 97 Wash. 2d 864 - State v. Peterson
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he prosecutor reiterated, on numerous occasions, that the recommended sentence of 102 months was itself a severe penalty, constituting the maximum under the standard range for the offenses.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(a) A lawyer shall not knowingly: "(1) Make a false statement of material fact or law to a tribunal.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Blakely · State v. Talley“Number one, your honor, it was not decided that an exceptional sentence could be qualified. The children involved had considerable difficulty isolating the specific events. That was one reason. Second was to save the children from having to go through a trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Talley
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.