69 Wash. App. 873 - State v. Paine’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably State v. Ford (1999), State v. Moen (1996)
41 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 Angrist v. United States · 119 Wash. 2d 192 - State v. Salinas · United States v. Sealy, Inc. · 88 Wash. 2d 899 - State v. Partin · 77 Wash. 2d 27 - State v. Callahan
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A justification for the rule is that it tends to bring sentences in conformity and compliance with existing sentencing statutes and avoids permitting widely varying sentences to stand for no reason other than the failure of counsel to register a proper objection in the trial court.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“a challenge to a sentence that is contrary to law may be raised on appeal for the first time”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bahl“has the power and duty to correct the error upon its discovery”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ford
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.