112 Wash. 2d 347 - State v. Neher’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
122 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 122 later decisions — most recently April 2020 · most notably State v. Watson (2002), State v. Roggenkamp (2005)
122 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 109 Wash. 2d 29 - State v. Stannard · 103 Wash. 2d 304 - State v. Kincaid · 98 Wash. 2d 725 - State v. Keller · 110 Wash. 2d 16 - State v. Wilbur · Provo City Corp. v. Willden
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 122 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`statutes should be construed to effect their purpose, and strained, unlikely, or absurd consequences resulting from a literal reading are to be avoided.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"(1) When the death of any person ensues within three years as a proximate result of injury proximately caused ... by the operation of any vehicle in a reckless manner . . ., the person so operating such vehicle is guilty of vehicular homicide."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"(1) A person is guilty of vehicular assault if he operates or drives any vehicle: "(a) In a reckless manner, and this conduct is the proximate cause of serious bodily injury to another; . . .".”
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.