10 Wash. App. 429 - Cathcart v. Andersen’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently April 2025
2 district · 7 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 Board of Public Instruction of Broward Cty. v. Doran · DeFunis v. Odegaard · 222 So. 2d 470 - Times Publishing Company v. Williams · 71 Wash. 2d 197 - Leland v. Frogge
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]ll meetings of the governing body of a public agency shall be open and public and all persons shall be permitted to attend any meeting of the governing body of a public agency, except as otherwise provided in this chapter.”
1 later decision 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.