174 Wash. 2d 269 - State v. Siers’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

21 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury . . . , and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. State v. Lynch

2. “The right to a jury trial serves a different purpose than the “nature and cause” requirement [in the Sixth Amendment] and the due process notice requirement; the former addresses the adequacy of proof of the offense charged and of the aggravating sentencing factors, while the latter simply provides a defendant notice of the charges.”

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