18 Wash. 2d 7 - State v. Christensen’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

17 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ ‘The business of a farmer is production, not trade, and the sale directly by himself of what he rears or produces is merely occasional or incidental. . . . The producer whose trade is incident to production, and the middleman whose trade is intermediary between the producer and the consumer, belong not to the same class, but to different classes of subjects in a scheme of taxation.’ ” (Italics ours.) p. 25”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 75 Wash. 2d 383 - Fors Farms, Inc. v. Washington State Employment Security Department

2. “‘ ‘ The courts . . . have had difficulty with this type of case, and some of this difficulty . . . has, in our opinion, arisen because the courts have attempted to pick out some particular phase of the operation as determinative of whether it was agricultural, industrial or commercial, instead of looking primarily to the main general purpose of the operation.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 27 Cal. 2d 570 - Irvine Co. v. California Employment Commission

3. ““Exceptions, generally, [in statutes] should be strictly, but reasonably, construed; that they extend only so far as their language warrants; and all doubts should be resolved in favor of the general provision, rather than the exception.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hines v. Winters