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← 81 WASHAPP 773 - State v. Michielli

State v. Michielli’s Empirical Analysis

1996

Citation profile

2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
May 1997
most recently cited

2 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 79 Wash. 2d 12 - State Ex Rel. Carroll v. Junker · 107 Wash. 2d 346 - State v. Knapstad · 111 Wash. 2d 124 - State v. Brown · 101 Wash. 2d 745 - State v. Laureano · 93 Wash. 2d 454 - State v. Dailey

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

  1. “The crime of trafficking envisions a person who steals and then sells to a middleman (fence) who, in turn, buys the stolen property with the intent to resell it to a third person. It suggests at least a two-party transaction and reflects legislative intent to punish those who knowingly deal in property stolen by others. There is no indication the Legislature intended to convert all second-degree thefts into first-degree felonies when the accused sells or pawns the items taken.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Michielli
  2. “Mr. Michielli should be given the opportunity to rethink his original misguided position on what his criminal culpability is for finding some rather expensive items in somebody's house and proceeding to pawn them....”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
    e.g. State v. Michielli
  3. “got himself painted into this corner with regard to not wishing to plead guilty to the original charge of second-degree theft which simply involved the weapon. Now [he's] got all these other charges facing him.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
    e.g. State v. Michielli

How this case has been treated — in progress

Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.