91 Wash. App. 612 - State v. Sweet’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
July 1999
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Blockburger v. United States · United States v. Dixon · Whalen v. United States · 125 Wash. 2d 769 - State v. Calle · 127 Wash. 2d 95 - State v. Gocken
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Every person who, in the commission of a burglary shall commit any other crime, may be punished therefor as well as for the burglary, and may be prosecuted for each crime separately.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) A person is guilty of assault in the first degree if he or she, with intent to inflict great bodily harm: .... (c) Assaults another and inflicts great bodily harm.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The Legislature has clearly spoken on the issue and therefore burglary does not merge with first degree rape.”
1 later decision 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.