95 Wash. App. 700 - State v. Serrano’s Empirical Analysis

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22 state decisions

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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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Some Washington cases have upheld exceptional sentences on the basis of the number of wounds inflicted. In each of those cases, however, the sheer number of wounds demonstrated a cruelty not usually associated with the offenses. Mr. Serrano shot [the victim] five times. This fact itself does not suggest he gratuitously inflicted pain as an end in itself.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Faagata · State v. Faagata

2. “[t]o the extent the sentencing court here sought to ascertain facts, its question in the context of [the defendant's] allocution was improper.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Curtis · State v. Curtis

3. “`Deliberate cruelty consists of gratuitous violence, or other conduct which inflicts physical, psychological or emotional pain as an end in itself.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Garnica