State v. Monday’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “'black folk don't testify against black folk'”

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

2. “Seventeen years and eleven months ago yesterday, I signed on, I signed on to serve at the pleasure of Norman K. Maleng. I never imagined in a million years I would get to try as many murder cases as I have in the last 15 years, and I never imagined I would ever get to try one, a doozy, like this one. Seventeen years and about ten months ago I started going to training sessions in the King County prosecutor's office on Saturday mornings that we just dreaded when we could be playing golf.... And two things stood out for me very shortly into my career as a prosecutor, two tenets that all good prosecutors, I think, believe. One is that when you have got a really, really, really strong case, it's hard to come up with something really, really, really compelling to say. And the other is that the word of a criminal defendant is inherently unreliable. Both of those tenets have proven true time and time again over the years, and they have done it specifically in this case over the last five weeks—four weeks. I never imagined when I signed on to serve at the pleasure of Norm Maleng, this won't be the last murder case I will try, but it is the last one I will try under his name. I imagined I would call eight witnesses who simply will not or cannot bring themselves to admit what cannot be denied.”

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

3. “Q. .... And would you agree or disagree with the notion that there is a code on the streets that you don't talk to the poleese? A. I mean, that's what some people say. That's what some people go by. Q. Well, can you help us understand who these some people are? A. I'm saying—I'm just saying that's how some people is. Some people talk to the police, some don't. Q. And you're one of those that don't, right? A. I'm saying—well, I don't—police ain't my friends or nothing. .... Q. Does that mean that you're one of those people who don't talk to the police? A. No, sometimes I don't talk to the po-leese. I mean, they got a question or something to ask me, I answer. I don't talk to them.”

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