83 Wash. App. 669 - State v. Vaughn’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably State v. Gore (2001), State v. Sledge (1998)
34 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 109 Wash. 2d 207 - State v. Dunaway · 106 Wash. 2d 514 - State v. Nordby · 127 Wash. 2d 95 - State v. Gocken · 109 Wash. 2d 947 - Allingham v. City of Seattle · 125 Wash. 2d 847 - State v. Lough
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Multiple acts in themselves establish a greater level of culpability than is contemplated by the Legislature in establishing the punishment for a crime that can be committed by a single act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Garnica“Although the statute refers to multiple incidents only in the context of major economic offenses, ... they can also justify an exceptional sentence in other contexts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Garnica“In addition, multiple acts prolong the period of danger and degradation endured by the victim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Garnica
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.