95 Wash. 2d 469 - State v. Frampton’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2019 · most notably Baze v. Rees (2008), 154 Wash. 2d 118 - State v. Hughes (2005)
24 federal appellate · 60 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 Estelle v. Gamble · Gregg v. Georgia · Furman v. Georgia · Lockett v. Ohio · Addington v. Texas
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“death as a punishment is different. When a defendant's life is at stake, the courts have been particularly sensitive to insure that every safeguard is observed.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“The maximum penalty for a defendant who pleads guilty to first degree murder is life imprisonment with possibility of parole. A defendant who pleads not guilty and is subject to a jury trial may receive the death penalty. Where, pursuant to statutory procedure, the death penalty is imposed upon conviction following a plea of not guilty and a trial, but is not imposed when there is a plea of guilty, that statute is unconstitutional.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“same” jury for sentencing purposes, the court reasoned, "the maximum penalty on a plea of guilty to first degree murder is life imprisonment with a possibility of parole. RCW 9A.32.040(3); RCW 9.95.115.”
1 later decision 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.