State v. Fire’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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

1. “I consider him a baby raper, and it should just be severely punished. I'm very opinionated when it comes to this kind of a crime.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 141 Wash. App. 597 - State v. Wilson · State v. Wilson

2. “The rule stated by the majority [of courts] is that, where the court refuses a challenge for cause, and the party challenging removes the juror by a peremptory challenge and exhausts all his peremptory challenges, while it is error it will not be considered prejudicial unless the record discloses that some juror was kept upon the panel who was not fair and impartial.... But we think that the majority rule entirely overlooks at least one of the purposes of the peremptory challenges allowed by law.... [I]t seems to us that the right to peremptory challenges is given to enable parties to excuse from the jury those whom they may, for any reason, feel would not make fair jurors even though nothing is disclosed on the voir dire.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Fire

3. “appellate deference to trial court determinations of the ability of potential jurors to be fair and impartial is not a rubber stamp”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Wilson