14 Wash. 2d 138 - State v. Rush’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

19 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “an attempt, with unlawful force, to inflict bodily injury upon another, accompanied with apparent present ability to give effect to the attempt if not prevented.”

   7 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 101 Wash. 2d 612 - State v. Acosta · 36 Wash. App. 454 - State v. Krup

2. “Every person who, under circumstances not amounting to assault in the first degree— (4) Shall wilfully assault another with a weapon or other instrument or thing likely to produce bodily harm; Shall be guilty of assault in the second degree”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 70 Wash. 2d 969 - State v. Alvis · 73 Wash. 2d 701 - State v. Stewart

3. “The evidence adduced by the state sustains the verdict of the jury that appellant menaced the prosecuting witness with a dangerous weapon with the apparent present ability to inflict grievous bodily harm upon the prosecuting witness; hence, appellant is guilty of the crime of assault in the second degree. We held in State v. Shaffer, 120 Wash. 345 , 207 Pac. 229 , that one who menacingly pointed an apparently loaded revolver at another within range of that weapon was guilty of second degree assault “with a weapon . . . likely to produce bodily harm” within Rem. Rev. Stat., § 2414, subd. 4, [8] although the gun was not, in fact, loaded, (p. 140)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 69 Wash. 2d 928 - State v. Harris