119 Wash. 2d 138 - State v. Sims’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently August 2011 · most notably 125 Wash. 2d 782 - State v. Vangerpen (1995), 119 Wash. 2d 143 - State v. Johnson (1992)
34 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 In re Disbarment of Kleindienst · 117 Wash. 2d 93 - State v. Kjorsvik · 91 Wash. 2d 342 - State v. Boyer · 119 Wash. 2d 143 - State v. Johnson · 96 Wash. 2d 373 - State v. Cleppe
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is impossible for a person to intend to manufacture or deliver a controlled substance without knowing what he or she is doing. By intending to manufacture or deliver a controlled substance, one necessarily knows what controlled substance one possesses as one who acts intentionally acts knowingly. . . . Therefore, there is no need for an additional mental element of guilty knowledge.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) [D]o the necessary facts appear in any form, or by fair construction can they be found, in the charging document; and, if so, (2) can the defendant show that he or she was nonetheless actually prejudiced by the inartful language which caused a lack of notice?”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“That the respondent Rashawn Thompson, in King County, • Washington, on or about 10 March 1991, unlawfully and feloniously did have in his possession with intent to manufacture or deliver a certain controlled substance, and a narcotic drug, to wit: cocaine; Contrary to RCW 69.50.401(a), and against the peace and dignity of the state of Washington.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.