30 Wash. App. 313 - State v. Ecklund’s Empirical Analysis

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18 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “facts or data ... upon which an expert bases an opinion or inference ... [are] of a type reasonably relied upon by experts in the particular field in forming opinions or inferences upon the subject, the facts or data need not be admissible in evidence.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 156 Wash. 2d 150 - Detention of Marshall v. State · State v. Nation

2. “A record of an act, condition or event, shall in so far as relevant, be competent evidence if the custodian or other qualified witness testifies to its identity and the mode of preparation, and if it was made in the regular course of business, at or near the time of the act, condition or event, and if, in the opinion of the court, the sources of information, method and time of preparation were such as to justify its admission.”

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

3. “The prevailing position ... is that police reports are admissible if the report is made in the regular course of police business and it is the regular course of police business to keep such a report.”

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