State v. Eaton

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• agreeing with Tippetts, reasoning that the legislature “did not intend the unlikely, absurd, or strained consequence of punishing a defendant for his involuntary act”
• finding the defendant must enter the jail voluntarily in order to be convicted under the statute
• sentencing enhancements are not separate substantive criminal offenses from the underlying predicate offense
• sentencing enhancements are not separate substantive criminal offenses from the underlying predicate offense

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Deer
  Washington Supreme Court· 2012-10-25· cited 42×
• State v. Eaton
  Washington Supreme Court· 2010-03-25· cited 40×
• State v. Rice
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2011-01-19· cited 15×
• State v. Alvarado
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2008-12-26· cited 13×
• Herron v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2010-02-23· cited 11×
• People v. Ward
  Michigan Supreme Court· 2009-06-12· cited 6×
• State v. McGrew
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2010-06-29· cited 6×
• State v. Carlson
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2008-03-11· cited 3×
• State v. Gneiting
  Idaho Supreme Court· 2020-07-15· cited 3×
• Rachel W. Baker v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2023-04-10
• State of Iowa v. Sheila Marie Sundall
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2025-08-20

Cites

23 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• State v. J.P.
  Washington Supreme Court· 2003-05-22· cited 558×
• United States v. Apfelbaum
  Supreme Court· 1980-03-03· cited 352×
• State v. J.M.
  Washington Supreme Court· 2001-08-02· cited 238×
• State v. Lewis
  Washington Supreme Court· 1998-05-28· cited 167×
• In the Matter of Charles
  Washington Supreme Court· 1998-05-28· cited 166×
• State v. Bradshaw
  Washington Supreme Court· 2004-10-14· cited 154×
• National Electrical Contractors Ass'n v. Riveland
  Washington Supreme Court· 1999-06-03· cited 139×
• State v. Barnes
  Washington Supreme Court· 2005-01-13· cited 125×
• State v. Stannard
  Washington Supreme Court· 1987-09-24· cited 89×
• State v. Speaks
  Washington Supreme Court· 1992-05-21· cited 83×
• State v. Day
  Washington Supreme Court· 1981-12-24· cited 57×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-11-13· cited 55×
• Anderson v. City of Seattle
  Washington Supreme Court· 1994-05-19· cited 35×
• State v. Gonzalez
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 2003-06-26· cited 33×
• State v. Utter
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1971-01-25· cited 31×
• State v. Tippetts
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 2002-03-27· cited 30×
• State v. Winsor
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2003-07-29· cited 18×
• State v. Cole
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 2007-06-15· cited 18×
• Mortell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2003-10-21· cited 15×
• Fontaine v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2000-12-01· cited 13×