76 Wash. 2d 328 - State v. McCarty’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “When used in criminal statutes making nonsupport a penal offense, a willful act or omission thus comprehends and imports an absence of lawful excuse or justification on the part of the accused parent. Although the state has the burden of establishing willfulness as well as the absence of lawful excuse in a prosecution for the omission proscribed by RCW 26.20-.030(1)(b), supra, it meets that burden on a prima facie basis under the provisions of RCW 26.20.080, supra, when the evidence it presents reveals, directly or circumstantially, a failure on the part of a physically or vocationally able parent to furnish the requisites of support.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 102 Wash. 2d 242 - State v. Richmond

2. “a lawful excuse, including a physical, vocational or economic incapacity to furnish the elements of support delineated by RCW 26.20.030”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 102 Wash. 2d 242 - State v. Richmond

3. “comprehends and imports an absence of lawful excuse or justification on the part of the accused parent.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 92 Wash. 2d 162 - State v. Bauer