Cavender v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
November 2015
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Martin v. State · Rude v. State · Leach v. State · Clouse v. State · Richardson v. Green
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Judicial discretion is a composite of many things, among which are conclusions drawn from objective criteria; it means a sound judgment exercised with regard to what is right under the circumstances and without doing so arbitrarily or capriciously. Byerly v. Madsen, 41 Wash.App. 495 , 704 P.2d 1236 (1985).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Vena v. State · Hogan v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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