State v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “An inmate of a state correctional institution who is serving a sentence for an offense committed on or after August 1, 1995, commits the crime of persistent prison misbehavior if the inmate knowingly commits a serious infraction, that does not constitute a class A or class B felony, after losing all potential earned early release time credit.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Simmons · State v. Simmons

2. “(1) The department shall adopt, by rule, a system that clearly links an inmate's behavior and participation in available education and work programs with the receipt or denial of earned early release days and other privileges. The system shall include increases or decreases in the degree of liberty granted the inmate within the programs operated by the department, access to or withholding of privileges available within correctional institutions, and recommended increases or decreases in the number of earned early release days that an inmate can earn for good conduct and good performance. (2) Earned early release days shall be recommended by the department as a reward for accomplishment.”

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

3. “[The statute] provides that the rules be "adopted under RCW 72.09.130." When you look at the serious infractions, they were passed under RCW 72.01.090 which is a different section.... So we have a statute saying you are supposed to pass it under one section and they actually passed it under something else....”

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