State v. McNutt’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

14 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “`Recent overt act' means any act or threat that has either caused harm of a sexually violent nature or creates a reasonable apprehension of such harm in the mind of an objective person who knows of the history and mental condition of the person engaging in the act.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Detention of Hovinga

2. “[w]hen, on the day a sexually violent predator petition is filed, an individual is incarcerated for a sexually violent offense, RCW 71.09.020[15], or for an act that would itself qualify as a recent overt act, RCW 71.09.020[10].”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 156 Wash. 2d 150 - Detention of Marshall v. State

3. “Although the act of communicating here involved a girl rather than boys, we conclude that it constitutes a recent overt act.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Detention of Anderson