70 Wash. 2d 414 - State v. Elder’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently December 1997
16 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 63 Wash. 2d 879 - Hartman v. Port of Seattle · 68 Wash. 2d 618 - Vangemert v. McCalmon · 63 Wash. 2d 212 - Carraway v. Johnson · 60 Wash. 2d 434 - Cunningham v. Town of Tieton · 67 Wash. 2d 337 - Dole v. Goebel
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In passing upon the sufficiency of instructions, we are governed by the following general rules: (1) Instructions must be considered as a whole. (2) Each party is entitled to instructions on his theory of the case which is sustained by substantial evidence. (3) The court need not give amplified instructions, if the instructions given are broad enough to permit argument. (4) The court's instructions should contain general statements of the applicable law. (5) Instructions are sufficient if each party can argue satisfactorily to the jury his theory of the case.”
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.