State v. Smith

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that a court will not reach a constitutional issue if it can decide the case on nonconstitutional grounds
• a court will not reach a constitutional issue if it can decide the case on nonconstitutional grounds
• \court will not reach a constitutional issue if it can decide the case on nonconstitutional grounds\
• \A court will not reach a constitutional issue if it can decide the case on nonconstitutional grounds.\
• a court will not reach a constitutional issue if it can decide the case on nonconstitutional grounds
• “A court will not reach a constitutional issue if it can decide the case on nonconstitutional grounds.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Dhaliwal
  Washington Supreme Court· 2003-11-20· cited 297×
• State v. Smith
  Washington Supreme Court· 1991-08-15· cited 207×
• State v. Ray
  Washington Supreme Court· 1991-03-21· cited 172×
• State v. Moen
  Washington Supreme Court· 1996-07-18· cited 159×
• State v. Ciskie
  Washington Supreme Court· 1988-03-17· cited 137×
• State v. Sullivan
  Washington Supreme Court· 2001-03-08· cited 118×
• State v. Johnson
  Washington Supreme Court· 1992-05-21· cited 111×
• State v. Perez-Cervantes
  Washington Supreme Court· 2000-08-24· cited 101×
• State v. Brown
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2010-10-25· cited 72×
• State v. Avendano-Lopez
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1995-11-02· cited 68×
• State v. Schierman
  Washington Supreme Court· 2015-05-05· cited 62×
• Trummel v. Mitchell
  Washington Supreme Court· 2006-03-30· cited 54×
• State v. Walden
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1993-03-29· cited 51×
• State v. Suarez-Bravo
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1994-01-04· cited 38×
• Pitzer v. Union Bank of California
  Washington Supreme Court· 2000-09-14· cited 37×
• The State of Washington, Respondent, v. Dawn Marie Sullivan, Appellant
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2016-10-10· cited 31×
• State v. Nieblas-Duarte
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1989-08-21· cited 30×
• State v. Stover
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1992-08-24· cited 30×
• State v. Stark
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1992-07-13· cited 29×
• State v. Clapp
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1992-08-26· cited 28×

Cites

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

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Boykin v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1969-06-02· cited 12,640×
• In Re WINSHIP
  Supreme Court· 1970-05-18· cited 11,712×
• Johnson v. Zerbst
  Supreme Court· 1938-05-31· cited 10,545×
• Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority
  Supreme Court· 1936-02-17· cited 3,147×
• Burgett v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1967-11-13· cited 1,632×
• State v. Green
  Washington Supreme Court· 1980-08-28· cited 1,403×
• State v. Holsworth
  Washington Supreme Court· 1980-02-14· cited 169×
• State v. Acosta
  Washington Supreme Court· 1984-05-24· cited 168×
• State v. Bonds
  Washington Supreme Court· 1982-11-10· cited 163×
• State v. Johnson
  Washington Supreme Court· 1983-12-15· cited 155×
• State v. Boyer
  Washington Supreme Court· 1979-01-04· cited 155×
• State v. Kroll
  Washington Supreme Court· 1976-12-16· cited 152×
• Seattle-First National Bank v. Shoreline Concrete Co.
  Washington Supreme Court· 1978-12-28· cited 151×
• State v. Parris
  Washington Supreme Court· 1982-11-24· cited 142×
• State v. Fritz
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1978-09-25· cited 115×
• State v. Hall
  Washington Supreme Court· 1981-04-23· cited 95×
• State v. Holt
  Washington Supreme Court· 1985-08-22· cited 88×
• State v. Baeza
  Washington Supreme Court· 1983-10-20· cited 82×
• State v. Fagalde
  Washington Supreme Court· 1975-08-21· cited 81×