93 Wash. 2d 177 - State v. Bryan’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably 105 Wash. 2d 175 - State v. Ammons (2005), State v. Manussier (1996)
46 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 81 Wash. 2d 155 - Barry & Barry, Inc. v. Department of Motor Vehicles · State v. Mulcare · 90 Wash. 2d 59 - Polygon Corp. v. City of Seattle · 88 Wash. 2d 368 - Washington State Liquor Control Board v. Washington State Personnel Board · 78 Wash. 2d 845 - State v. Cerny
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Determination of crimes and punishment has traditionally been a legislative prerogative, subject to only very limited review in the courts.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]t is the function of the legislature and not of the judiciary to alter the sentencing process.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`is to be treated as mandatory or permissive, depending upon the intent of the legislature as determined by the ordinary rules of construction.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Marking
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.