110 Wash. 2d 892 - In Re Eaton’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently October 2021 · most notably Waste Management of Seattle, Inc. v. Utilities & Transportation Commission (1994), 116 Wash. 2d 794 - Cherry v. Municipality of Metropolitan Seattle (1991)
71 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 80 Wash. 2d 547 - Sorenson v. City of Bellingham · 97 Wash. 2d 385 - Tommy P. v. Board of County Commissioners · 107 Wash. 2d 503 - Addleman v. Board of Prison Terms and Paroles · 77 Wash. 2d 94 - Washington Natural Gas Co. v. Public Utility District No. 1 · 109 Wash. 2d 819 - Everett Concrete Products, Inc. v. Department of Labor & Industries
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here a statute designates a list of things whereupon the statute operates, the inference arises that the Legislature intended to omit other things not listed[.]”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“¶ 14 Three criteria must be considered when determining whether the requisite degree of public interest exists: (1) the public or private nature of the question presented, (2) the need for a judicial determination for future guidance of public officers, and (3) the likelihood of future recurrences of the issue.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. GAH · State v. Sansone“[t]his holding enables DSHS to fulfill its responsibility to all children in assuring that those most needy receive the limited available openings. DSHS should have been allowed to go through its own procedures to determine if [the school] was the most appropriate location for [the child].”
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.