Mortell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
March 2014
most recently cited
11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Yates v. Gober · Texas v. Cobb · Davis v. Department of Licensing · 114 Wash. 2d 828 - State v. Fjermestad · State v. Tili
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he legislature could not have intended such absurd results when providing for the sentencing of gross misdemeanors.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gailus“shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for a maximum term . . . of not more than one year.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gailus
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.