103 Wash. 2d 391 - Carlstrom v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
2 district · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably 123 Wash. 2d 391 - Caritas Services, Inc. v. Department of Social & Health Services (1994), Washington Fed. of State Emp. v. State (1995)
2 district · 36 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 Home Building & Loan Ass'n v. Blaisdell · United States Trust Company of New York v. New Jersey · Energy Reserves Group, Inc. v. Kansas Power & Light Co. · Coloma Community School District v. Berry · Dennis v. California
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“subject to all present and future acts of the legislature”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Financial necessity, though superficially compelling, has never been sufficient of itself to permit states to abrogate contracts. ‘[A] State is not completely free to consider impairing the obligations of its own contracts on a par with other policy alternatives.’ ... If governments could reduce their financial obligations whenever an important public purpose could be conceived for repudiating a contract ‘the Contract Clause would provide no protection at all.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[n]o state shall . . . pass any. . . law impairing the obligation of contracts . . Article 1, section 23 of the Washington State Constitution similarly provides that "[n]o . . . law impairing the obligations of contracts shall ever be passed.”
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.