112 Wash. 2d 303 - State v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 23 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The outcome of something as important as deciding whether a defendant was exposed to double jeopardy should not hang on such guesswork.... To serve the ends of certainty, reliance on the final written court order or written journal entry to determine the finality of a ruling is the better rule ... [m]any judges will think out loud along the way to reaching the final result. It is only proper that this thinking process not have final or binding effect until formally incorporated into the findings, conclusions, and judgment. [ Id. at 308 , 771 P.2d 350 .][ [8] ]”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. People v. Vincent · 137 Wash. App. 494 - City of Auburn v. Hedlund

2. ““no more than an expression of its informal opinion at the time it is rendered. It has no final or binding effect unless formally incorporated into the findings, conclusions, and judgment.”[ 25 ]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. State v. Pruitt

3. “rule long followed in this state that a ruling is final only after it is signed by the trial judge in the journal entry or is issued in formal court orders.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. People v. Vincent