20 Wash. App. 340 - State v. Bradley’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

13 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(1) A person is guilty of manslaughter in the first degree when: (a) He recklessly causes the death of another person”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 94 Wash. 2d 129 - State v. Hanton · State v. Takacs

2. “(1) In the lawful defense of the slayer, or his or her husband, wife, parent, child, brother, or sister, or of any other person in his presence or company, when there is reasonable ground to apprehend a design on the part of the person slain to commit a felony or to do some great personal injury to the slayer or to any such person, and there is imminent danger of such design being accomplished; or (2) In the actual resistance of an attempt to commit a felony upon the slayer, in his presence, or upon or in a dwelling, or other place of abode, in which he is.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 94 Wash. 2d 129 - State v. Hanton

3. “Any person who shall commit or attempt to commit any felony ... or any misdemeanor or gross misdemeanor categorized herein as inherently dangerous, while armed with, or in the possession of any firearm, shall upon conviction, in addition to the penalty provided by statute for the crime committed without use or possession of a firearm, be imprisoned as herein provided . . .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 102 Wash. 2d 271 - State v. Theilken