56 Wash. App. 451 - State v. Hayes’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 state decisions

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

1. “[a] poor person subject to an order requiring payment of money could be incarcerated [for contempt] when a wealthy person would not.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 64 Wash. App. 808 - State v. Bower · 62 Wash. App. 640 - State v. Eisenman

2. “1. Repayment must not be mandatory; 2. Repayment may be imposed only on convicted defendants; 3. Repayment may only be ordered if the defendant is or will be able to pay; 4. The financial resources of the defendant must be taken into account; 5. A repayment obligation may not be imposed if it appears there is no likelihood the defendant's indigency will end; 6. The convicted person must be permitted to petition the court for remission of the payment of costs or any unpaid portion; 7. The convicted person cannot be held in contempt for failure to repay if the default was not attributable to an intentional refusal to obey the court order or a failure to make a good faith effort to make repayment.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 118 Wash. 2d 911 - State v. Curry