94 Wash. 2d 387 - State v. Fain’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 93 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 101 later decisions — most recently September 2023 · most notably 106 Wash. 2d 54 - State v. Gunwall (1986), 97 Wash. 2d 92 - State v. White (1982)
6 federal appellate · 93 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 Morrissey v. Brewer · Gregg v. Georgia · Greenholtz v. Inmates of Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex · Trop v. Dulles · Rummel v. Estelle
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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'(1) the nature of the offense, (2) the legislative purpose behind the statute, (3) the punishment the defendant would have received in other jurisdictions, and (4) the punishment meted out for other offenses in the same jurisdiction.'”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[e]xcessive bail shall not be required, excessive fines imposed, nor cruel punishment inflicted.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“sufficiently expressed their intent, and refused to adopt an amendment inserting the word”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gregory · State v. Bassett
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.