State v. Twitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently July 2013
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 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 104 Wash. 2d 353 - Public Utility District No. 1 v. Washington Public Power Supply System · 8 Utah 2d 73 - Allred v. Hinkley · E & M Investments Co. v. Town of Dickson · State v. Dillon · Boyd v. Wimes
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a person is adjudged guilty of criminal activity which has resulted in pecuniary damages ... the court shall order that the defendant make restitution up to double the amount of pecuniary damages to the victim or victims of the offense to which the defendant has pleaded guilty....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Robinson · State v. Garcia“[a] conversion is an act of wilful interference with a chattel, done without lawful justification by which the person entitled thereto is deprived of its use and possession.... Although conversion results only from intentional conduct it does not however require a conscious wrongdoing, but only an intent to exercise dominion or control over the goods inconsistent with the owner’s right.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'the first question before a sentencing court is what restitution, if any{,] will best serve rehabilitative and deterrent purposes? and the second is 'would that be recoverable as special damages if this were a civil case?*”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.