69 Wash. 2d 256 - State v. Whitney’s Empirical Analysis

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28 state decisions

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

1. “[(1)] the error alleged is not unlikely to recur in other courts . . . [and (2)] it [the error] involves a patently erroneous construction of a statute, as a result of which the prosecution has been deprived of a long accepted and highly useful and rehable means of establishing responsibility for a crime.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 28 Wash. App. 230 - King County v. Washington State Board of Tax Appeals · 83 Wash. 2d 429 - Bushman v. New Holland Division of Sperry Rand Corp.

2. “It is true that, as a general rule, we will not grant certiorari to review an interlocutory order such as that complained of here. . . . The reason for this rule is that cases should not be tried piecemeal; and questions arising during the course of the trial can, ordinarily, be reviewed on appeal. But the state is not given the right to appeal from an order excluding evidence, . . .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 9 Wash. App. 826 - State v. Rook