State v. Moen’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
104 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 105 later decisions — most recently December 2021 · most notably State v. Ford (1999), State v. Mollichi (1997)
104 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 Woodcock v. Chemical Bank · United States v. Sealy, Inc. · 125 Wash. 2d 570 - State v. Gentry · 125 Wash. 2d 533 - Marley v. Department of Labor & Industries · State v. McFadden
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 105 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A justification for the rule is that it tends to bring sentences in conformity and compliance with existing sentencing statutes and avoids permitting widely varying sentences to stand for no reason other than the failure of counsel to register a proper objection in the trial court.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ross · State v. Ross“[a]ll that is involved is a court ruling the restitution order invalid because the timeliness requirement has not been met. Whether the trial court or the appellate court makes that determination is a distinction with little difference, once the time period has passed.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The rule established by this court is that where a statute has been construed by the highest court of the state, the court's construction is deemed to be what the statute has meant since its enactment.”
3 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.