75 Wash. App. 611 - State v. Valentine’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A person unlawfully arrested by an officer may resist the arrest; the means used to resist an unlawful arrest must be reasonable and proportioned to the injury attempted upon the party sought to be arrested. The use of force to prevent an unlawful arrest which threatens only a loss of freedom, if you so find, is not reasonable.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Valentine · State v. Valentine

2. “Jury instructions must not be misleading, must permit a party to argue his or her theory of the case and, when read as a whole, must properly inform the trier of fact on the law.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re RAW

3. “In his defense, Mr. Valentine... insisted he used reasonable force to protect himself from an illegal arrest.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Valentine