In Re Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
1 district · 30 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Weaver v. Graham · 128 Wash. 2d 537 - Whatcom County v. City of Bellingham · 135 Wash. 2d 326 - State v. Riles · 119 Wash. 2d 1 - Sintra, Inc. v. City of Seattle · In the Matter of Charles
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No person serving a sentence imposed pursuant to this chapter and committed to the custody of the department shall leave the confines of the correctional facility or be released prior to the expiration of the sentence except as follows: (1) Except as otherwise provided for in subsection (2) of this section, the term of the sentence of an offender committed to a correctional facility operated by the department may be reduced by earned release time in accordance with procedures that shall be developed and promulgated by the correctional agency having jurisdiction in which the offender is confined. The earned release time shall be for good behavior and good performance, as determined by the correctional agency having jurisdiction. The correctional agency shall not credit the offender with earned release credits in advance of the offender actually earning the credits. Any program established pursuant to this section shall allow an offender to earn early release credits for presentence incarceration. If an offender is transferred from a county jail to the department, the administrator of a county jail facility shall certify to the department the amount of time spent in custody at the facility and the amount of earned release time.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“`the presence of a comma before the qualifying phrase is evidence the qualifier is intended to apply to all antecedents instead of only the immediately preceding one.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“a serious violent offense or a sex offense that is a class A felony committed on or after July 1, 1990,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Ramsey
How this case has been treated — in progress
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