107 Wash. 2d 861 - Whitney v. Buckner’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently January 2015 · most notably State v. Mott (1997), 116 Wash. 2d 283 - Harbor Enterprises, Inc. v. Gudjonsson (1991)
27 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 Wolff v. McDonnell · Bounds v. Smith · Boddie v. Connecticut · Price v. Johnston · Marino v. United States
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]lthough mandamus will not lie to control exercise of discretion, it will lie to require that discretion be exercised.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“prisoners be afforded meaningful access to the courts.’-’ Whitney, 107 Wn.2d at 866 (emphasis in original).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“state monopolization of the means for legally dissolving this relationship”
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.