State v. Dejarlais’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

18 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “`You can be arrested even if the person or persons who obtained the order invite or allow you to violate the order's prohibitions.'”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Dejarlais · Freeman v. Freeman

2. “"Domestic violence is a problem of immense proportions affecting individuals as well as communities. Domestic violence has long been recognized as being at the core of other major social problems: Child abuse, other crimes of violence against person or property, juvenile delinquency, and alcohol and drug abuse. Domestic violence costs millions of dollars each year in the state of Washington for health care, absence from work, services to children, and more."”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Karas · Danny v. Laidlaw Transit Services, Inc.

3. “Whenever an order for protection is granted under this chapter and the respondent or person to be restrained knows of the order, a violation of the restraint provisions or of a provision excluding the person from a residence, workplace, school, or day care is a gross misdemeanor....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Dejarlais