State v. Sanwick’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
247 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 250 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably 122 Wash. 2d 1 - Matter of Personal Restraint of Young (1993), 154 Wash. 2d 118 - State v. Hughes (2005)
247 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 Williams v. People of State of New York · Roberts v. United States · Wasman v. United States · 24 Wash. App. 495 - State v. King · State v. Johnson
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 250 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Except for ... constitutional restraints, the trial court has broad discretion in imposing sentence within the statutory scope. [The court] must be permitted to consider any and all information that reasonably may bear on the proper sentence for the particular defendant, given the crime committed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the rules of evidence in general, and the rules on hearsay exclusions in particular, are inapplicable in sentencing proceedings”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Robinson · State v. Weeks
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.