85 Wash. 2d 45 - State v. Cosner’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently January 2011 · most notably 90 Wash. 2d 443 - State v. Workman (1978), 95 Wash. 2d 385 - State v. Theroff (1980)
67 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 81 Wash. 2d 628 - State v. Frazier · 83 Wash. 2d 188 - State v. Pringle · 11 Wash. App. 216 - State v. Smith · 69 Wash. 2d 177 - State v. Coma · 9 Wash. App. 213 - State v. Mims
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“due process of law requires that the information contain specific allegations . . . putting the accused person upon notice that enhanced consequences will flow with a conviction”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Any person who shall commit or attempt to commit any felony, or any misdemeanor or gross misdemeanor categorized herein as inherently dangerous, while armed with, or in the possession of any firearm, shall upon conviction, in addition to the penalty provided by statute for the crime committed without use or possession of a firearm, be imprisoned as herein provided: "(1) For the first offense the offender shall be guilty of a felony and the court shall impose a sentence of not less than five years, which sentence shall not be suspended or deferred;" (Italics ours.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[Defendants], while advised of the involvement of a mandatory minimum were, nevertheless, misinformed as to the length thereof. Their petitions are accordingly granted to the extent that the Board of Prison Terms and Paroles is directed to reduce their mandatory minimum terms in accordance with their understanding of the length thereof at the time of their pleas.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.