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← 91 Wash. App. 612 - State v. Sweet

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.

  1. “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
  2. “(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
  3. “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.