State v. Smith

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a to convict instruction must include all essential elements of a crime
• holding that a to convict instruction must include all essential elements of a crime
• holding a “to convict” instruction constitutionally defective when it listed the crime of “conspiracy to commit murder in the first degree” rather than the crime of “murder in the first degree” as the underlying crime
• jury instructed on the element of \conspiracy to commit murder\ when the proper element was \murder\
• \failure to instruct on an element of an offense is automatic reversible error\
• \[F]ailure to instruct on an element of an offense is automatic reversible error.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

92 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• State v. Hughes
  Washington Supreme Court· 2005-04-14· cited 316×
• State v. Brown
  Washington Supreme Court· 2002-09-19· cited 271×
• State v. Roggenkamp
  Washington Supreme Court· 2005-02-10· cited 252×
• In re the Detention of Thorell
  Washington Supreme Court· 2003-07-10· cited 203×
• State v. Smith
  Washington Supreme Court· 1997-02-06· cited 195×
• State v. Stein
  Washington Supreme Court· 2001-07-12· cited 156×
• State v. Bobic
  Washington Supreme Court· 2000-04-06· cited 154×
• State v. Mills
  Washington Supreme Court· 2005-04-07· cited 148×
• State v. Lorenz
  Washington Supreme Court· 2004-07-01· cited 137×
• State v. Allen
  Washington Supreme Court· 2013-01-24· cited 119×
• State v. DeRyke
  Washington Supreme Court· 2003-08-07· cited 112×
• State v. Williams
  Washington Supreme Court· 2007-11-08· cited 107×
• State v. Johnson
  Washington Supreme Court· 2014-05-01· cited 102×
• State v. Ward
  Washington Supreme Court· 2003-03-06· cited 94×
• State v. Jennings
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2002-04-05· cited 88×
• City of Bellevue v. Lorang
  Washington Supreme Court· 2000-02-03· cited 71×
• State v. Williams
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2007-01-02· cited 68×
• State v. Oster
  Washington Supreme Court· 2002-08-15· cited 62×
• State v. Embry
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2012-10-30· cited 58×
• State v. Meggyesy
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1998-04-27· cited 54×

Cites

18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Sullivan v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1993-06-01· cited 3,512×
• State v. Wanrow
  Washington Supreme Court· 1977-01-07· cited 308×
• State v. Bergeron
  Washington Supreme Court· 1985-12-12· cited 220×
• State v. Byrd
  Washington Supreme Court· 1995-01-19· cited 184×
• United States v. Karl v. David
  Fourth Circuit· 1996-05-06· cited 175×
• State v. Acosta
  Washington Supreme Court· 1984-05-24· cited 168×
• State v. Stephens
  Washington Supreme Court· 1980-03-26· cited 165×
• State v. Johnson
  Washington Supreme Court· 1983-12-15· cited 155×
• State v. Golladay
  Washington Supreme Court· 1970-05-28· cited 154×
• United States v. Pettigrew
  Fifth Circuit· 1996-03-12· cited 147×
• State v. Aumick
  Washington Supreme Court· 1995-05-18· cited 138×
• State v. Emmanuel
  Washington Supreme Court· 1953-07-02· cited 129×
• State v. Burri
  Washington Supreme Court· 1976-05-27· cited 101×
• State v. Eastmond
  Washington Supreme Court· 1996-07-18· cited 86×
• United States v. Francis Dirico
  First Circuit· 1996-03-11· cited 36×
• State v. MacMaster
  Washington Supreme Court· 1989-09-14· cited 29×
• State v. Stewart
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1983-08-15· cited 20×
• State v. Smith
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1996-02-02· cited 6×