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6 canonical passages across 5 cases, quoted by 55 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from State v. Elmi.

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1 State v. Elmi Anchor
wash · 2009
green “(1) an unlawful touching (actual battery); (2) an attempt with unlawful force to inflict bodily injury upon another, tending but failing to accomplish it (attempted battery); and (3) putting another in apprehension of harm.” 18
2 State v. Benn
wash · 1993
green “in the context of the instructions as a whole.” 13
3 State v. Hickman
wash · 1998
green “jury instructions not objected to become the law of the case.” 12
4 State v. Hickman
wash · 1998
green “that the act occurred in snohomish county, washington” 5
5 Tonkovich v. Department of Labor & Industries
wash · 1948
green “the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the verdict is to be determined by the application of the instructions and rules of law laid down in the charge” 4
6 State v. Stevens
wash · 2006
green “show sexual gratification as part of its burden to prove sexual contact,” 3

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