78 Wash. App. 648 - State v. Buchanan’s Empirical Analysis

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17 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[The defendant’s] argument would have more force if [the defendant’s] conviction and the abandoned charge were based on different facts. In that scenario, the mistrial would have no substantive connection to the subsequent conviction, and a strong argument could be made that costs associated with the mistrial were not really part of the prosecution that resulted in conviction.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 124 Wash. App. 190 - State v. Moon

2. “the costs of the mistrial are part of the prosecution of the defendant. So long as the charges in the trials are the same or based on the same facts, the mistrial costs may properly be assessed when, as here, the applicable statutes allow costs for `prosecuting' a convicted defendant.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 216 W. Va. 120 - State v. Myers

3. “were linked, both substantively and procedurally, to the same prosecution, and because the prosecution resulted in a conviction, the trial court did not exceed its authority or abuse its discretion when it imposed costs for the mistrial under the statute.”

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