103 Wash. 2d 280 - Cole v. Webster’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently April 2021 · most notably 108 Wash. 2d 162 - Herron v. Tribune Publishing Co. (1987), 104 Wash. 2d 580 - Teaford v. Howard (1985)
48 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 103 Wash. 2d 268 - Chandler v. Otto · 80 Wash. 2d 121 - STATE EX REL. MANDATORY BUSSING v. Brooks · 81 Wash. 2d 831 - Bocek v. Bayley · 73 Wash. 2d 255 - State Ex Rel. LaMon v. Town of Westport · 28 Wash. App. 552 - Herron v. McClanahan
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“persons submitting charges... have knowledge of the facts upon which the stated grounds for recall are based, rather than simply a belief that the charges are true.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]hese statutory requirements ensure that both the public electorate and the challenged elective official will make informed decisions in the recall process.”
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.