41 Wash. App. 724 - State v. Bailey’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently August 2009
11 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 Roviaro v. United States · Mullaney v. Wilbur · Patterson v. New York · United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Liparota v. United States
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.
“[F]ailure to provide one is not reversible error so long as the instructions as a whole make it clear . . . that the State had the burden of proving unlawful possession and that possession was not unlawful if the defendant did not know the drug was in his or her possession. Read as a whole, the instructions informed the jury that the State had the burden of proving the absence of unwitting possession. Moreover, the defendants did not request a specific instruction. The end result in this case is that the burden of proving knowledgeable possession was not shifted to the defendants.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“his 'possession’ was unwitting, then he had no possession for which the law will convict”. Cleppe , at 381. Staley’s proposed instruction 2 combines the defense of”
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.