People v. Behncke’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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. “here were, in fact, undercover police officers, suffices to relieve defendant of criminal liability for the completed crimes, but ... does not provide a defense to an attempt to commit these crimes inasmuch as defendant”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 119 Wash. 2d 167 - State v. Johnson

2. “'A person is guilty of permitting prostitution when, having possession or control of premises which he knows are being used for prostitution purposes, he fails to make reasonable effort to halt or abate such use.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Johnson