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State v. Gore

Is it still good law? What later courts have actually done to this case.

Limited by some courts
Court
Supreme Court of Washington
Citation
681 P.2d 227
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
73 of 73
Citing cases (total)
73
Treatment dates
1990
Limited by some courts
At least one reviewed court has limited this case’s holding to narrower facts or a narrower rule. No reviewed court has overruled it. State v. Gore is limited; all 73 flagged citations have been read. The one confirmed adverse treatment is listed below.
Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

73 later cases cite State v. Gore; 73 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Treatments

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  • The Washington Supreme Court held that Gore's rule against applying an unforeseeable expansion of criminal liability to earlier conduct did not cover a later Court of Appeals decision; Gore had involved decisions of the state Supreme Court.

    State v. Elliott · Supreme Court of Washington · filed

    In Gore this court stated that if the decisional law existing at the time the conduct occurred is overruled, then the law existing at the time of the acts must be applied. However, that case involved decisions of the Supreme Court and not decisions of the Court of Appeals. ... The cases cited by petitioner do not support her contention. We therefore conclude that her claim of ex post facto violation is without merit.
    Read the full opinion on CourtListener →

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