State v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis

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14 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is not so much the purpose of Rem. Code, § 1987-17, to punish crime as it is to protect children, and it is manifest that its purpose is to prevent children from becoming delinquent or dependent as well as to assist in reclaiming children after they have reached that condition. The fundamental idea of the juvenile court law is to protect children and to prevent them from becoming impressed with the character of dependency ’or delinquency. It is not a statute of reform, but a statute of prevention. In re Lundy, 82 Wash. 148 , 143 Pac. 885 , Ann. Cas. 1916E 1007. . . . “The legislature did not intend to put a premium on leading virtuous girls astray. Subdivision 16 of § 1 of ch. 160, p. 520, Laws of 1913 (Rem. Code, § 1987-1) defines a dependent child as being one who from any cause is in danger of growing up to lead an idle, dissolute or immoral life. A child may be dependent, under the definition of this subdivision, and yet be neither immoral nor dissolute. A child may lie greatly in danger of growing up to lead an immoral or dissolute life and still be both moral and virtuous. Consequently § 17 is leveled against the doing of any act which exposes the child to that danger, whether it actually results in leading the child into idleness, immorality or vice, or not. . . . “Therefore, where the charge is that of originally causing and bringing about a state of dependency or delinquency of a child, it is not necessary either to allege or prove that the child in question was ”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 32 Wash. 2d 268 - State v. Johnson