42 Wash. 2d 799 - State v. Emmanuel’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 110 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 115 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(a) An attorney or counselor shall not, without the consent of his or her client, be examined as to any communication made by the client to him or her, or his or her advice given thereon in the course of professional employment. (b) A parent or guardian of a minor child arrested on a criminal charge may not be examined as to a communication between the child and his or her attorney if the communication was made in the presence of the parent or guardian. This privilege does not extend to communications made prior to the arrest.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 75 Wash. 2d 1 - Dike v. Dike · 43 Wash. App. 484 - Olson v. Haas

2. “instruction which purported to contain all essential elements must in fact contain all of the essential elements, and the jury should not be required to search the other instructions to see if another element should have been added to those specified. But again, no searching was necessary here; everything the jury was required to decide was clearly laid out for the jury to decide. We adhere to our holdings in Emmanuel and Smith. The jury has a right to regard the”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Oster · State v. O'DONNELL

3. “`In instructing a jury as to the statutory definition of the crime with which a defendant stands charged, all of the pertinent elements contained in the statute should be set forth.'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 114 Wash. 2d 340 - State v. Bailey · State v. Borrero