91 Wash. 2d 342 - State v. Boyer’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 130 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 132 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably 114 Wash. 2d 867 - State v. Henderson (1990), 119 Wash. 2d 143 - State v. Johnson (1992)
2 federal appellate · 130 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 Mullaney v. Wilbur · 87 Wash. 2d 829 - State v. Kroll · 87 Wash. 2d 717 - Ball v. Smith · 68 Wash. 2d 618 - Vangemert v. McCalmon · 17 Wash. App. 231 - State v. Smith
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 132 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“even a postal carrier would be guilty of the crime were he innocently to deliver a package which in fact contained a forbidden narcotic.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] party may not request an instruction and later complain on appeal that the requested instruction was given.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“Except as authorized by this chapter, it is unlawful for any person to manufacture, deliver, or possess with intent to manufacture or deliver, a controlled substance.”
8 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.