110 Wash. 2d 682 - State v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
365 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 367 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably 127 Wash. 2d 322 - State v. McFarland (1995), 117 Wash. 2d 829 - State v. Lord (1992)
365 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on 101 Wash. 2d 355 - State v. Allen · 88 Wash. 2d 518 - State v. Thompson · 97 Wash. 2d 335 - Bordynoski v. Bergner
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 367 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The reason for the rule that juries must be instructed on the elements is identical to the technical term rule: juries must be informed what the applicable law is before they can make a meaningful decision as to guilt or innocence. We cannot presume that jurors already know and understand the law; therefore courts carefully instruct jurors on the law, and presume they then understand and follow those instructions. E.g., Bor- dynoski v. Bergner, 97 Wn.2d 335, 342 , 644 P.2d 1173 (1982). No possible purpose is served by allowing juries to deliberate in ignorance of the law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a] person is guilty of criminal trespass in the first degree if he knowingly enters or remains unlawfully in a building.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Jensen
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.