20 Wash. App. 12 - Dailey v. Lange’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. “A police officer while in the performance of his duties in the pursuit and apprehension of an actual or suspected violator of the law has certain privileges and is exempted from compliance with traffic regulations or rules of the road while the vehicle he is operating is displaying either or both a red light or one or more blue lights. Such a police officer may park or stand irrespective of any traffic regulations relative thereto and, further, is not required to keep a constant lookout for approaching vehicles. A police officer must exercise that care which an ordinarily prudent officer, similarly engaged in traffic enforcement, would take while carrying out his duties.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 31 Wash. App. 579 - Sutton v. Shufelberger

2. “Every pedestrian crossing a roadway at any point other than within a marked crosswalk or within an unmarked crosswalk at an intersection shall yield the right of way to all vehicles upon the roadway.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 92 Wash. 2d 285 - Stewart v. State