28 Wash. App. 281 - State v. Champion’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “, reasoning that ”[t]he Byers definition of 'arrest' is especially inappropriate in the prison context in which this case arose.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Waugh · 101 Wash. 2d 745 - State v. Laureano

2. “A stopping for investigation is not a lesser intrusion, as compared to arrest, because the restriction on movement is incomplete, but rather because it is brief when compared with arrest, which (as emphasized in Terry) "is inevitably accompanied by future interference with the individual's freedom of movement, whether or not trial or conviction ultimately follows."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 44 Wash. App. 226 - State v. Sweet

3. “It was stipulated and was found by the trial court that the December 5, 1978, incident was an "arrest", as the term is defined in State v. Byers, 88 Wn.2d 1, 559 P.2d 1334 (1977). "Arrest" has been defined in State v. Byers, supra at 6 , as follows: "Appellants were under arrest from the moment they were not, and knew they were not, free to go."”

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