State v. Nelson

How courts have described this case

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

• upholding departure downward for mitigators of incomplete defense of entrapment, cooperation and assistance to the State, and that he played a secondary role in the crime
• upholding departure downward for mitigators of incomplete defense of entrapment, cooperation and assistance to the State, and that he played a secondary role in the crime
• exceptional sentence downward justified as a matter of law due to presence of mitigating factor listed in former RCW 9.94A.390
• exceptional sentence downward justified as a matter of law due to presence of mitigating factor listed in former RCW 9.94A.390
• The existence of a motive “does not establish criminal disposition, [which is] measured under the SRA by a history of prior convictions.”
• cooperation and assistance with state authorities is a valid mitigating factor

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Thang
  Washington Supreme Court· 2002-03-07· cited 296×
• State v. Sledge
  Washington Supreme Court· 1997-12-11· cited 170×
• State v. Ha'mim
  Washington Supreme Court· 1997-07-24· cited 86×
• State v. Creekmore
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1990-01-16· cited 69×
• State v. Scott
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1993-12-27· cited 67×
• State v. Jeannotte
  Washington Supreme Court· 1997-12-11· cited 65×
• State v. Alexander
  Washington Supreme Court· 1995-01-26· cited 64×
• State v. Estrella
  Washington Supreme Court· 1990-10-11· cited 58×
• State v. Freitag
  Washington Supreme Court· 1995-06-22· cited 53×
• State v. Fowler
  Washington Supreme Court· 2002-01-17· cited 50×
• State v. Bernhard
  Washington Supreme Court· 1987-07-30· cited 46×
• State v. Boot
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1998-01-27· cited 42×
• State v. Grady
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1995-07-14· cited 34×
• State v. Akin
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1995-04-24· cited 34×
• State v. Pryor
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1989-11-30· cited 31×
• State v. Korum
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2004-03-15· cited 28×
• State v. Sledge
  Washington Supreme Court· 1998-01-28· cited 26×
• State v. Harmon
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1988-03-08· cited 25×
• State v. Roberts
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1989-08-07· cited 20×
• State v. Fualaau
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2010-04-05· cited 20×

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Nordby
  Washington Supreme Court· 1986-08-14· cited 272×
• State v. Trog
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1982-08-17· cited 160×
• State v. Pascal
  Washington Supreme Court· 1987-05-07· cited 121×
• In Re the Personal Restraint of Myers
  Washington Supreme Court· 1986-04-07· cited 75×
• State v. Van Ruler
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 1985-12-03· cited 73×
• State v. Smith
  Washington Supreme Court· 1984-02-02· cited 68×
• State v. Heywood
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1983-09-16· cited 50×
• State v. Hartley
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1985-08-29· cited 42×
• State v. Wright
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1981-09-22· cited 37×
• Edward G. Sullivan v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1955-02-03· cited 21×
• State v. Swain
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1974-04-08· cited 16×
• In Re the Personal Restraint of Hughes
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1978-01-27· cited 12×
• State v. Nelson
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1986-05-29· cited 5×