123 Wash. 2d 794 - State v. Staley’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
103 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 105 later decisions — most recently July 2021 · most notably State v. Adel (1998), State v. Fernandez-Medina (2000)
103 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 Time, Inc. v. Bon Air Hotel, Inc. · In re Disbarment of Kleindienst · State v. Hoffman · 88 Wash. 2d 899 - State v. Partin · 106 Wash. 2d 176 - State v. Hughes
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 105 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A defendant in a criminal case is entitled to have the jury fully instructed on the defense theory of the case.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“ameliorate[ ] the harshness of the almost strict criminal liability our law imposes for unauthorized possession of a controlled substance. If the defendant can affirmatively establish that his `possession' was unwitting, then he had no possession for which the law will convict,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]o "possess" means to have actual control, care and management of, and not a passing control, fleeting and shadowy in its nature.”
2 later decisions 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.