98 Wash. 2d 428 - State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis

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9 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A majority of the [Court of Appeals] panel held that failure to question the validity of prior convictions at the trial level forecloses the consideration of that question upon appeal. The reasoning of that court was that, inasmuch as the issue was never raised, the trial court could not have committed error in failing to rule upon it. We have no quarrel with that reasoning. However, as we perceive the question, it is not whether the trial court committed error but whether a limited retroactive effect should be given to the new rule laid down by this court. The answer to that question lies within the discretion of this court as enunciator of the rule. See Lau v. Nelson, 92 Wn.2d 823 , 601 P.2d 527 (1979).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 104 Wash. 2d 497 - State v. Smith

2. “for hearings upon the question whether [the defendants'] prior guilty pleas were made knowingly and voluntarily, according to the criteria set forth in State v. Holsworth, 93 Wn.2d 148 , 607 P.2d 845 (1980).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 36 Wash. App. 798 - State v. Bowman

3. “effected an abrupt change in the law with respect to procedures in habitual criminal proceedings. The burden upon the prosecutor was significantly increased as a result of that opinion.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 34 Wash. App. 715 - State v. Braithwaite