141 Wash. 2d 701 - State v. Root’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
16
cited by 16 later decisions
3
states following
June 2010
most recently cited
16 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Bell v. United States · Snow · Grant v. Phænix Life Insurance · State v. Adel · State v. Chester
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] person who knowingly possesses visual or printed matter depicting a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct is guilty of a class C felony.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he statute specifically states `a minor,' ... [the defendant] may be charged per child involved.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ose · State v. Root“is a photograph, but rather the occasion in which a minor is caused to engage in sexually explicit conduct knowing the conduct will be photographed. The defendant in that case possessed at least two sexually explicit photographs of each minor. The defendant was charged with violating RCW 9.68A.040 based on taking sexually explicit photographs on two separate occasions. Additionally, he was charged with violating the statute twice for each minor. The charge was not multiplicitous because the statute defined photograph as”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Root
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.