State v. Ustimenko’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. “hit-and-run statute, RCW 46.52.020, may be violated in two ways: either by unlawfully leaving the scene of an accident resulting in injury to or death of “any person,” or by unlawfully leaving the scene of an accident resulting in damage to a vehicle or other property. In either case, the driver involved in the accident must remain at the scene of the accident to give his or her identification information and to render assistance to “any person injured in such accident.””

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

2. “authorizes the imposition of only one conviction when multiple people and items of property are damaged by a driver’s failure to stop, identify himself or herself, and render assistance. The unit of prosecution is the act of leaving the scene of an accident without giving assistance and the required information, not the failure to give assistance and information to a particular individual.”

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