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← 5 P3D 759 - In Re Bratz

In Re Bratz’s Empirical Analysis

2000

Citation profile

19
cited by 19 later decisions
2
states following
December 2013
most recently cited

19 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on McCarthy v. United States · 122 Wash. 2d 1 - Matter of Personal Restraint of Young · 119 Wash. 2d 167 - State v. Johnson · 135 Wash. 2d 326 - State v. Riles · 87 Wash. 2d 363 - State v. Newton

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

  1. “Yet, for example, in RCW 9A.44.040 (first degree rape) the Legislature has provided that a mere threat of use of a deadly weapon is sufficient to sustain a first degree rape charge. But with first degree robbery, the Legislature did not so provide, instead choosing to require the act of display. This is significant because”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “A person commits robbery when he unlawfully takes personal property from the person of another or in his presence against his will by the use or threatened use of immediate force, violence, or fear of injury to that person or his property or the person or property of anyone.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “`[i]t is well settled that where the Legislature uses certain language in one instance but different, dissimilar language in another, a difference in legislative intent is presumed.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

How this case has been treated — in progress

Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.