26 Wash. App. 119 - State v. Meyer’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Whenever any series of transactions which constitute theft, would, when considered separately, constitute theft in the third degree because of value, and said series of transactions are a part of a common scheme or plan, then the transactions may be aggregated in one count and the sum of the value of all said transactions shall be the value considered in determining the degree of theft involved.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 94 Wash. 2d 387 - State v. Fain · 79 Wash. App. 494 - State v. Hoyt

2. “(1) Any person who shall with intent to defraud, make, or draw, or utter, or deliver to another person any check, or draft, on a bank or other depository for the payment of money, knowing at the time of such drawing, or delivery, that he has not sufficient funds in, or credit with said bank or other depository, to meet said check or draft, in full upon its presentation, shall be guilty of unlawful issuance of bank check. . . . (4) Unlawful issuance of a bank check in an amount greater than two hundred fifty dollars is a class C felony. (5) Unlawful issuance of a bank check in an amount of two hundred fifty dollars or less is a gross misdemeanor”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Boyanovsky

3. “[T]he writing of a bad check is no longer described as 'larceny,' and the general definition of theft no longer mentions checks, as did RCW 9.54.010(2) and .090(5).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Boyanovsky