2 Wash. App. 910 - State v. Berkins’s Empirical Analysis

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24 state decisions

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

1. “[T]he court could have been requested to promptly instruct the jury panel that no inference of guilt was to be drawn from the manacling incident. State v. Ollison, 68 Wn.2d 65, 411 P.2d 419 (1966); State v. Sawyer, 60 Wn.2d 83, 371 P.2d 932 (1962). When error can be obviated by jury instruction it is the defendants' duty to request such an instruction. If he does not do so, the error is deemed waived. State v. Ollison, supra; State v. Smails, 63 Wash. 172 , 115 P. 82 (1911); Spratt v. Davidson, 1 Wn. App. 523 , 463 P.2d 179 (1969). See Hogenson v. Service Armament Co., 77 Wn.2d 209, 216 , 461 P.2d 311 (1969).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 21 Wash. App. 783 - State v. Bonner

2. “An officer need not have knowledge of evidence sufficient to establish guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, but only reasonable grounds for suspicion coupled with evidence of circumstances to convince a cautious or disinterested person that the accused is guilty. . . . . . . The practical considerations test does not necessarily require exact identity and detailed description of the car and person involved. Reasonable similarity, especially when coupled with other apparently incriminating circumstances may permit a reasonable inference of identity.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 39 Wash. App. 564 - State v. Samsel