State v. K.E.’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

18 state decisions

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

1. “[A] juvenile court may impose a downward exceptional disposition where the court finds that a standard range disposition would constitute excessive punishment because the standard range is not needed to rehabilitate the juvenile offender or protect the public from criminal behavior.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 114 Wash. App. 358 - State v. M.L.

2. “Indeed, to impose an excessive penalty on a juvenile in light of the purposes of the Juvenile Justice Act would be to defeat the very definition of `manifest injustice,' and would presumably be to the detriment of that juvenile.”

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

3. “impose an excessive penalty on the juvenile or would impose a serious, and clear danger to society in light of the purposes of this chapter.”

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