State v. Davidson

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• upholding conviction for attempted possession of stolen goods based on purchase of what defendant thought was stolen property from undercover police officer
• \attempt\ is possible even if completed act is factually impossible
• legal impossibility defense greatly eroded

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Lynn
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1992-08-31· cited 243×
• State v. Aumick
  Washington Supreme Court· 1995-05-18· cited 138×
• Butler v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1984-07-23· cited 71×
• State v. Luther
  Washington Supreme Court· 2006-05-18· cited 71×
• State v. Gosser
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1982-12-16· cited 70×
• State v. Townsend
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2001-04-05· cited 25×
• State v. Wojtyna
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1993-07-26· cited 22×
• State v. Hunter
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1981-05-05· cited 20×
• State v. Rios
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1982-02-09· cited 17×
• State v. Knight
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1989-05-16· cited 13×
• State v. Pacheco
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1993-05-19· cited 9×
• State v. Walsh
  Washington Supreme Court· 1994-04-07· cited 9×
• State v. James
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1980-06-23· cited 7×
• State v. Luther
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2005-01-10· cited 2×
• State v. Powell
  Utah Supreme Court· 1983-10-20· cited 1×

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• United States v. Martin Molina Oviedo, Jr.
  Fifth Circuit· 1976-01-12· cited 146×
• People v. Rojas
  California Supreme Court· 1961-01-27· cited 115×
• People v. Jaffe
  New York Court of Appeals· 1906-04-15· cited 88×
• State v. MORETTI
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1968-06-28· cited 61×
• State v. Lewis
  Washington Supreme Court· 1966-08-04· cited 33×
• Booth v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 1964-12-23· cited 29×
• Darnell v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1976-12-21· cited 28×
• People v. Rolling
  New York Supreme Court· 1962-11-05· cited 26×
• State v. Niehuser
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 1975-04-07· cited 24×
• United States v. Hair
  District of Columbia· 1973-03-28· cited 17×
• Darr v. People
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1977-08-15· cited 13×
• People v. Moss
  California Court of Appeal· 1976-02-10· cited 12×
• People v. Bel Air Equipment Corp.
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1974-11-04· cited 11×
• State v. Carner
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1975-10-30· cited 9×
• United States v. Butler
  S.D. New York· 1962-04-16· cited 8×
• People v. Rosencrants
  New York County Courts· 1977-03-10· cited 8×