14 Wash. App. 348 - State v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently December 2010
14 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on State v. Dixon · 40 Cal. App. 2d 740 - People v. James · State v. Bock · 58 Cal. App. 123 - People v. MacKey · 2 Wash. App. 241 - State v. Tate
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e hold the Washington legislature intended to restrict the use of prior convictions for impeachment purposes to defendants in subsequent prosecutions just as did the California legislature. When so read, the proviso or exception is construed strictly; when a statute provides for certain exceptions, no other exceptions will be assumed by implication. Hall v. Corporation of Catholic Archbishop, 80 Wn.2d 797 , 498 P.2d 844 (1972); Insurance Co. of North America Cos. v. Sullivan, 56 Wn.2d 251 , 352 P.2d 193 (1960). Moreover, RCW 9.95.240, being a remedial statute should be construed liberally so as to give effect to its purpose, 2A Sutherland Statutory Construction § 57.12 (3d ed. rev. 1973), that is, to treat an individual whose conviction has been expunged as a full-fledged citizen unless the statute clearly intends to preserve some taint of the conviction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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