State v. Ross’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably 165 Wash. 2d 913 - State v. Mendoza (2009), In Re Cadwallader (2005)
66 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 United States v. Batchelder · 63 Cal. 2d 740 - In Re Estrada · United States v. Batchelder · 125 Wash. 2d 570 - State v. Gentry · 105 Wash. 2d 175 - State v. Ammons
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]aiver of a challenge to an allegedly invalid sentence `can be found where the alleged error involves an agreement to facts, later disputed, or where the alleged error involves a matter of trial court discretion. . . . [W]aiver may be found where a defendant stipulates to incorrect facts.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“that an error of fact or law exists within the four corners of his judgment and sentence”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“Whenever any criminal or penal statute shall be amended or repealed, all offenses committed or penalties or forfeitures incurred while it was in force shall be punished or enforced as if it were in force, notwithstanding such amendment or repeal, unless a contrary intention is expressly declared in the amendatory or repealing act.”
4 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.