112 Wash. 2d 841 - Noah v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 2021
1 federal appellate · 14 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 48 Wash. 2d 695 - Bakenhus v. City of Seattle · 72 Ill. App. 3d 833 - Kraus v. Board of Trustees of Police Pension Fund · 101 Wash. 2d 536 - Washington Federation of State Employees v. State · 64 Wash. 2d 503 - Tembruell v. City of Seattle · 98 Wash. 2d 677 - Wash. Fed'n of State Employees Council 28 v. State
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If a statute is subject to full legislative control by future amendments and repeals, the statute declares policy to be pursued until the Legislature ordains otherwise, in contrast to creating contractual or vested rights.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the contractual right to a pension substantially in accord with the statutes as they existed when the employee begins service.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“in and of itself constitutes a complete contract.”
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.