72 Wash. App. 207 - State v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably State v. Copeland (1996), In Re Boot (1996)
64 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 Trop v. Dulles · Yagow v. United States · Coker v. Georgia · 79 Wash. 2d 12 - State Ex Rel. Carroll v. Junker · California v. United States
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“gratuitous violence or other conduct which inflicts physical, psychological, or emotional pain as an end in itself.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“'sufficiently substantial and compelling to distinguish the crime in question from others in the same category.’ ” Scott, 72 Wn. App. at 214 -15 (quoting Grewe, 117 Wn.2d at 216 ). Here, contrary to Mulligan’s argument that”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. S.H. · State v. Mulligan“capacity to appreciate the wrongfulness of his conduct or to conform his conduct to the requirements of the law,” RCW 9.94A.390(l)(e), and thus, the exceptional sentence [above the standard range] was improper. This argument borders on the absurd. Granted, teenagers are more impulsive than adults and lack mature judgment. However, Scott’s conduct cannot seri ously be blamed on his”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ha'mim · State v. Ha'Mim
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.