52 Wash. 2d 207 - State v. Bates’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
15
cited by 15 later decisions
2
states following
December 1979
most recently cited
15 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Pettit · Young v. Seattle Transfer Co. · State v. Peterson · State v. Powers · State v. Manos
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is sufficient, in charging a crime, to follow the language of the statute, where such crime is there defined and the language used is adequate to apprise the accused with reasonable certainty of the nature of the accusation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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