State v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
July 2018
most recently cited
11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · 94 Wash. 2d 216 - State v. Green · 127 Wash. 2d 322 - State v. McFarland · 119 Wash. 2d 192 - State v. Salinas · 117 Wash. 2d 829 - State v. Lord
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person is not guilty of possession of [an unlawful firearm] if the possession is unwitting. Possession of [an unlawful firearm] is unwitting if a person did not know that the [firearm] was in his possession. The burden is on the defendant to prove by a preponderance of the evidence that the [firearm] was possessed unwittingly. Preponderance of the evidence means that you must be persuaded, considering all of the evidence in the case, that it is more probably true than not true.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Michael · State v. Rowell“while the predicate offense court apparently failed to inform Mr. Carter according to the statute, he was not affirmatively misled”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Minor · State v. Breitung“shifted the burden of proving the knowledge element from the State to the defense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Rowell
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.