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← 123 Wash. 2d 720 - State v. Kenyon

123 Wash. 2d 720 - State v. Kenyon’s Empirical Analysis

1994

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
August 1997
most recently cited

4 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on County Court of Ulster Cty. v. Allen · 106 Wash. 2d 54 - State v. Gunwall · 123 Wash. 2d 704 - State v. Hanna

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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[a] person who drives in excess of the maximum lawful speed at the point of operation may be inferred to have driven in a reckless manner.” Hanna , at 709 (quoting WPIC 95.03). Mr. Hanna argued that the inference instruction relieved the State of its burden to prove each element of the offense. The Supreme Court held the reckless inference instruction was only part of the prosecution’s proof of guilt and concluded the”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “elemental fact of reckless driving more likely than not flowed from the proved fact of Kenyon's excessive speed.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

How this case has been treated — in progress

Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.