State v. Batten’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
16 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Rabon v. City of Seattle · 210 Cal. App. 3d 803 - People v. Poindexter · 95 Wash. App. 127 - State v. Batten · Rabon v. City of Seattle · 22 Cal. App. 4th 166 - People v. Gaspar D.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[i]n the absence of a statutory definition of a word, we employ the plain and ordinary meaning of the word as found in a dictionary.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ceglowski · State v. BEK“[a]ny felony in the commission of which a motor vehicle is used.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hearn · State v. BEK“[e]mploying a vehicle as a place to store and conceal the weapon, in our judgment, creates a sufficient relationship between the use of the vehicle and the crime of unlawful possession of the weapon to bring the possession of the weapon within the reach of the statute”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. BEK
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.