65 Wash. App. 547 - State v. Bryant’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “If by reason of death, sickness, or other disability, a judge before whom an action has been tried is unable to perform the duties to be performed by the court under these rules after verdict is returned or findings of fact and conclusions of law are filed, then any other judge regularly sitting in or assigned to the court in which the action was tried may perform those duties; but if such other judge is satisfied that he cannot perform those duties because he did not preside at the trial or for any other reason, he may in his discretion grant a new trial.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In Re Marriage of Crosetto · 101 Wash. App. 89 - In re the Marriage of Crosetto

2. “[w]hen [the judge] was not present and sitting as a member of the court at the hearing of a matter submitted for its decision.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 137 Wash. 2d 933 - DGHI, ENTERPRISES v. Pacific Cities, Inc. · In Re Marriage of Crosetto

3. “A judicial officer is a person authorized to act as a judge in a court of justice. Such officer shall not act as such in a court of which he or she is a member in any of the following cases: .... (2) When he or she was not present and sitting as a member of the court at the hearing of a matter submitted for its decision.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Ward