State v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 94 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions — most recently October 2021 · most notably 141 Wash. 2d 139 - Simpson Inv. Co. v. State, Dept. of Revenue (2000), State v. Fernandez-Medina (2000)
3 federal appellate · 94 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 122 Wash. 2d 109 - State v. Halstien · 106 Wash. 2d 514 - State v. Nordby · State v. Halgren · 111 Wash. 2d 892 - State v. Mejia · 61 Wash. App. 923 - State v. Hicks
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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]n exceptional sentence may not be based on factors inherent to the offense for which a defendant is convicted.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“sexual motivation logically applies only to offenses that are not inherently sexual in nature, ascribing additional culpability where the facts nevertheless prove the crime was undertaken for the purpose of sexual gratification.”
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.