26 Wash. App. 251 - State v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “In arriving at the amount of compensation to be paid the respondents, you should not consider anything which is remote, imaginary, or speculative, even though mentioned or testified to by witnesses. The only elements which you should take into consideration are those which will actually affect the fair market value of the property and which are established by the evidence.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 96 Wash. 2d 119 - State v. Evans

2. “After having carefully read the entire record, I come to an inescapable and abiding conclusion that it was the original purpose of the defendants and their very capable lawyer to include both the value of the feed mill and its enhancing operation in the award and that actually it was included. This is reversible error.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 96 Wash. 2d 119 - State v. Evans

3. “Q What else goes into setting up a cattle yard? We've heard testimony about a mill. What would it cost— realizing that cost isn't the sole guide — but what would it cost to replace that mill that the jury saw? A Approximately $250,000.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 96 Wash. 2d 119 - State v. Evans