Caps v. Board Members’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently July 2021
11 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 103 Wash. 2d 268 - Chandler v. Otto · State Ex Rel. Hardie v. Coleman · 103 Wash. 2d 280 - Cole v. Webster · 32 Wash. 2d 149 - State v. Miller · 81 Wash. 2d 831 - Bocek v. Bayley
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when a public officer has a right to perform an act which is discretionary, the manner in which the discretion is exercised does not rise to the level of misfeasance unless the discretion is exercised with an improper or corrupt motive.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“action taken [by school board members,] which is not in the best interests of the majority of the students and constituents of the school district.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the performance of a duty in an improper manner.”
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.