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7 canonical passages across 6 cases, quoted by 29 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side — they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from State v. Garcia-Martinez.

#Case FlagCanonical passage Citers
1 State v. Garcia-Martinez Anchor
washctapp · 1997
green “a court refuses to exercise its discretion if it refuses categorically to impose an exceptional sentence below the standard range under any circumstances; i.e., it takes the position that it will never impose a sentence below the standard range.” 11
2 State v. Fisher
wash · 1987
green “particular vulnerability due to extreme youth” 3
3 State v. Nordby
wash · 1986
green “since criminal history is one of the two components (the other being the seriousness of the offense) used to compute the presumptive range.” 3
4 State v. MA
washctapp · 2001
green “by all accounts, m.a. is physically very mature and m.a. has spent much of his youth with older adults” 3
5 State v. Ha'mim
wash · 1997
red “capacity to appreciate the wrongfulness of his or her conduct or to conform his or her conduct to the requirements of the law.” 3
6 State v. Ha'mim
wash · 1997
red “mitigating factor must be sufficiently substantial and compelling to distinguish the crime in question from others in the same category.” 3
7 State v. Law
wash · 2005
green “first, a trial court may not base an exceptional sentence on factors necessarily considered by the legislature in establishing the standard sentence range.” 3

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