# State v. Westlund

> Oregon Supreme Court · November 20, 1986 · 302 Or. 225

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9570363

## Case

- **Full name:** STATE OF OREGON, Petitioner on Review/Respondent on Review, v. BERNARD JOHN WESTLUND, Respondent on Review/Petitioner on Review
- **Court:** Oregon Supreme Court
- **Decided:** November 20, 1986
- **Citations:** 302 Or. 225; 729 P.2d 541; 1986 Ore. LEXIS 1789
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Linde
- **Judges:** Peterson, Lent, Linde, Campbell, Carson, Jones
- **Cited by:** 25 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- stating that even if a Supreme Court decision “were both an innovation in Oregon law and completely indefensible analytically, we would be bound to follow it * * * because the decision is a binding precedent of a superior court”

## Opinion text

LENT and LINDE, JJ.,
dissenting.
We dissent for the reasons expressed in our dissenting opinion in State v. Owens, 302 Or 196 , 729 P2d 524 (1986).

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