State v. Pharr’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[f]or the purposes of a special verdict, the State must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant was armed with a firearm at the time of the commission of the crime.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Washington v. Recuenco · In Re Personal Restraint of Delgado

2. “to whether he was armed with a deadly weapon. Also, the jury had to find beyond a reasonable doubt that Ruth was armed with a firearm in order to convict him of the assault charges. I agree with the Court of Appeals that the sentencing court did not violate Ruth's right to a jury trial when it imposed the firearm sentencing enhancement because the jury had found beyond a reasonable doubt that Ruth was armed with a firearm. ¶ 37 For Curtis Eugene Graham, the special verdict instructions did not require the jury to find Graham had been armed with a firearm in order to answer”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 167 Wash. 2d 889 - State v. Williams-Walker

3. “Was the defendant . . . armed with a deadly weapon at the time of the commission of the crime of Assault in the Second Degree?”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Washington v. Recuenco