5 Wash. App. 587 - State v. Hines’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Skinner v. State of Oklahoma Williamson · Rinaldi v. Yeager · Joseph Patsone v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · 48 Wash. 2d 545 - In RE OLSEN v. Delmore · 78 Wash. 2d 9 - State v. Zornes
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““the equal protection clause does not require things which are in fact different to be treated in law as though they are the same.” Rinaldi v. Yeager, 384 U.S. 305 , 16 L. Ed. 2d 577 , 86 S. Ct. 1497 (1966). Classifications set forth in statutes do not impinge upon the equal protection clause unless “the discrimination or inequity produced by the particular classification is manifestly arbitrary, unreasonable, inequitable and unjust.” State v. Persinger, 62 Wn.2d 362 , 382 P.2d 497 (1963). . . . The question is whether it is reasonable for the legislature to elevate certain enumerated misdemeanors to the status of felonies when those misdemeanors are perpetrated while armed. A particular classification is reasonable if (1) there is a difference in any of the elements of two similar crimes, (2) either requires a difference in proof, or (3) there was a difference in the crimes at common law. . . . The elements of and proof of petit larceny while armed differs from other misdemeanors, whether enumerated in the statute or not. The scheme of classification of the statute is thus reasonable and does not deny equal protection.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“If any person shall resist apprehension or arrest by firing upon a law enforcement officer, such person shall in addition to the penalty provided by statute for resisting arrest, be guilty of a felony and punished by imprisonment for not less than ten years, which sentence shall not be suspended or deferred.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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