State v. Gaines

How courts have described this case

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

• rejecting drug addiction as valid mitigating factor because fails it to \distinguish the defendant's crime from others in the same category\
• requiring resentencing where exceptional sentence premised on multiple factors and it was unclear whether the court would have departed from the standard range based on valid factor alone
• comparison of length of standard range and exceptional sentence below the range appropriate in considering whether exceptional sentence is clearly too lenient
• remand necessary when the appellate court is not confident the trial court would impose the same sentence on reconsideration
• statutory mitigating factor of minor involvement may support an exceptional sentence in a drug case
• trial court cited the defendant’s minor role as a mitigating factor, but the State challenged only findings regarding drug addiction and the purposes of the SRA

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

31 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• State v. Gore
  Washington Supreme Court· 2001-03-22· cited 131×
• State v. Parker
  Washington Supreme Court· 1997-05-22· cited 118×
• State v. Law
  Washington Supreme Court· 2005-04-21· cited 113×
• In re the Personal Restraint of Breedlove
  Washington Supreme Court· 1999-06-24· cited 102×
• State v. Sweet
  Washington Supreme Court· 1999-07-15· cited 100×
• State v. Ross
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1994-10-28· cited 84×
• State v. Alexander
  Washington Supreme Court· 1995-01-26· cited 64×
• State v. Freitag
  Washington Supreme Court· 1995-06-22· cited 53×
• State v. Ferguson
  Washington Supreme Court· 2001-01-04· cited 50×
• State v. Fowler
  Washington Supreme Court· 2002-01-17· cited 50×
• State v. Vaughn
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1996-09-23· cited 38×
• State v. Smith
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1996-05-28· cited 33×
• State v. Julian
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2000-08-29· cited 28×
• State v. Roberts
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1995-05-01· cited 22×
• State v. K.E.
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1999-08-30· cited 18×
• State v. Modest
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1997-10-07· cited 17×
• State v. Evans
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1996-03-11· cited 14×
• In Re Breedlove
  Washington Supreme Court· 1999-06-24· cited 13×
• State v. Freitag
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1994-05-09· cited 12×
• State v. Amo
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1994-10-11· cited 11×

Cites

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

• State v. Nordby
  Washington Supreme Court· 1986-08-14· cited 272×
• Willener v. Sweeting
  Washington Supreme Court· 1986-12-11· cited 201×
• United States v. Cynthia Johnson
  Second Circuit· 1992-05-14· cited 156×
• State v. Oxborrow
  Washington Supreme Court· 1986-08-14· cited 152×
• United States v. Rogelio Lara, Carlos Morales, Francisco Delgado, Carlos Morales
  Second Circuit· 1990-05-30· cited 133×
• State v. Barnes
  Washington Supreme Court· 2003-04-07· cited 127×
• State v. Pascal
  Washington Supreme Court· 1987-05-07· cited 121×
• State v. Rice
  Washington Supreme Court· 1983-02-07· cited 114×
• State v. Shove
  Washington Supreme Court· 1989-07-13· cited 112×
• State v. Grewe
  Washington Supreme Court· 1991-08-01· cited 111×
• State v. Hutsell
  Washington Supreme Court· 1993-02-25· cited 92×
• United States of America, Cross-Appellant v. Thomas Mickens, Anthony Jacobs, Shelby Kearney, Bettina Jacobs Celifie, Cross-Appellee
  Second Circuit· 1991-02-26· cited 87×
• State v. Allert
  Washington Supreme Court· 1991-08-01· cited 85×
• State v. Creekmore
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1990-01-16· cited 69×
• United States v. Patricia Skinner, Raymond Blodgett, William Sherman, and Debra Rexford, Patricia Skinner and Raymond Blodgett
  Second Circuit· 1991-09-30· cited 62×
• State v. Estrella
  Washington Supreme Court· 1990-10-11· cited 58×
• United States v. Jailal Jagmohan
  Second Circuit· 1990-07-13· cited 55×
• United States v. Andre Rogers
  Second Circuit· 1992-08-12· cited 55×
• Bevan v. Township of Brandon
  Supreme Court· 1992-01-21· cited 47×
• State v. Bernhard
  Washington Supreme Court· 1987-07-30· cited 46×