State v. Wakefield’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
81 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably 134 Wash. 2d 588 - State v. Morley (1998), 141 Wash. 2d 712 - Personal Restraint of Thompson (2000)
81 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 Santobello v. New York · Lord Electric Co. v. United States · Terrell v. United States · Dukes v. Warden, Connecticut State Prison · United States v. Read
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a trial court may not impose a sentence based on the elements of a more serious crime that the State did not charge or prove.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“`prohibits a party from setting up an error at trial and then complaining of it on appeal.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“shall not accept a plea of guilty, without first determining that it is made voluntarily, competently and with an understanding of the nature of the charge and the consequences of the plea.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Walsh · State v. Blanks
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.