55 Wash. 2d 329 - State v. McCaskey’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 1980
11 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 Mulligan v. Commonwealth · Hollin v. Commonwealth · Bailey v. Commonwealth · Hogan v. Commonwealth · Alder v. Commonwealth
Most-quoted passages
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“The language of the former statute [RCW 9.54.020], by providing that a culpable rider is equally guilty with the driver, declares that the act described shah be deemed in law the equivalent of aiding, abetting, counseling, or encouraging the principal act. RCW 9.54.020 denotes as “aiding and abetting” in law that which would independently have been strong evidence of such participation. Therefore, appellant’s riding in the stolen car with guilty knowledge, by reason of the statute making him equally guilty with the driver, constituted him an aider and abettor of the principal act of the codefendant. RCW 9.01.030 makes such principal act the act of the aider and abettor. Both are principals and chargeable as such. Where two defendants are charged jointly as principals and there is proof that one acted as aider and abettor, by reason of the statute (RCW 9.01.030), the proof will sustain the charge and conviction of both as principals.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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