104 Wash. 2d 293 - Turngren v. King County’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently January 2021 · most notably 108 Wash. 2d 162 - Herron v. Tribune Publishing Co. (1987), 119 Wash. 2d 1 - Sintra, Inc. v. City of Seattle (1992)
35 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Parratt v. Taylor · Owen v. City of Independence · Rideout v. United States · 95 Wash. 2d 898 - State v. Seagull
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the limited burden of presenting specific facts creating a genuine issue as to the question of whether the defendant's statements were made after a fair and impartial investigation or upon reasonable grounds for belief in their truth.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“learned that the house and the car outside it were owned by an Elmer Turngren, who was retired[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Clark v. Baines
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.