157 Wash. 2d 307 - State v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “rule. Former RCW 46.64.017 authorized an officer investigating an accident scene to make a warrantless arrest of the driver of a car involved in the accident for violations of traffic laws or regulations. We affirmed the lower court's dismissal of the petitioner's conviction, reasoning that both an ambiguous statute and a statute in derogation of the common law required a strict reading. We noted, however, that”

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

2. “any ... member of any humane society, or society for the prevention of cruelty to animals, may cause the immediate arrest of any person engaged in, or who shall have committed such cruelties, upon making oral complaint to any sheriff, constable or police officer, or such officer or member of such society may himself arrest any person found perpetrating any of the cruelties herein enumerated.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. State v. Walker

3. “`accommodating the public need for the most certain and immediate arrest of criminal suspects with the requirement of magisterial oversight to protect against mistaken insults to privacy' with the result that `only in the most serious of cases could the warrant be dispensed with.'”

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