63 Wash. App. 484 - State v. Olivarez’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 state decisions

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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Had the jury been instructed using WPIC 50.03, it could have found Mr. Guiterrez did not have constructive possession of the cocaine even though he did have joint dominion and control with others over the premises where it .was found. Here the jury was compelled to infer constructive possession of cocaine if it found Mr. Guiterrez had dominion and control over the premises. Thus, instruction 12 in effect operated as a directed verdict of guilt on the lesser included offense of possession of a controlled substance.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 83 Wash. App. 204 - State v. Cantabrana

2. “It is not a crime to have dominion and control over the premises where the substance is found.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Shumaker

3. “no actual physical possession but there is dominion and control over the substance.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Shumaker