76 Wash. App. 811 - State v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably 127 Wash. 2d 281 - State v. McCraw (1995), State v. Aten (1996)
26 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 Strickland v. Washington · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Wrenn v. Ohio Department of Mental Health · State v. Hoffman · 105 Wash. 2d 175 - State v. Ammons
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the case of multiple prior convictions, for the purpose of computing the offender score, count all convictions separately, except: (i) Prior adult offenses which were found, under RCW 9.94A.400(l)(a), to encompass the same criminal conduct, shall be counted as one offense, the offense that yields the highest offender score. The current sentencing court shall determine with respect to other prior adult offenses for which sentences were served concurrently whether those offenses shall be counted as one offense or as separate offenses using the "same criminal conduct” analysis found in RCW 9.94A.400(l)(a), and if the court finds that they shall be counted as one offense, then the offense that yields the highest offender score shall be used. The current sentencing court may presume that such other prior adult offenses were not the same criminal conduct from sentences imposed on separate dates, or in separate counties or jurisdictions, or in separate complaints, indictments, or informations; . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the current sentencing court is not bound by an earlier determination of whether to count the offenses as one offense or separate offenses, nor is it required to find that the offenses constituted the same criminal conduct under RCW 9.94A.400 in order to count them as one offense.... [T]he language of the statute is mandatory, stating that the current sentencing court shall determine whether the offenses are to be counted as one offense or separate offenses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“RCW 9.94A.360(6)(a) provides that the current sentencing court shall determine whether offenses which were served concurrently shall be counted as "one offense or as separate offenses". The statute does not restrict the current sentencing court to the previous sentencing court's determination or to the application of the same criminal conduct standard imposed pursuant to RCW 9.94A.400(1)(a).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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