47 Wash. 2d 593 - State v. Biondic’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently December 2000
16 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on State v. Pepoon · State v. Much · State v. Henke · 2 Wash. Terr. 381 - Leonard v. Territory · State v. Mahoney
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Instructions on justifiable homicide and self-defense were refused. There being no evidence from which the jury could have found that the killing, which was admitted, was either excusable or justifiable homicide as those terms are defined in our statutes (Laws of 1909, chapter 249, §§ 152,154, pp. 933, 934 (Rem. Rev. Stat., §§ 2404, 2406 [cf. RCW 9.48.150, 9.48.170])), the trial court properly refused to give the requested instructions, and just as properly gave an instruction that, as a matter of law, the killing was neither justifiable nor excusable. State v. Hartley (1946), 25 Wn. (2d) 211, 226, 170 P. (2d) 333 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“We now hold that the words, “and a true verdict render,” which were incorporated in the oath given to the jury when it was first sworn to try the case, is the equivalent of the “true deliverance make” called for by the statute in capital cases. See Black’s Law Dictionary (4th ed.) 515, where “deliverance” is defined; “In practice. The verdict rendered by a jury”; and 26 C. J. S. 696: “Deliverance. . . . Technically, in practice, the verdict rendered by a jury.” This holding makes it unnecessary to pass upon the effect of reswearing the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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