116 Wash. 2d 853 - State v. Canady’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently August 2012
24 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 United States v. Leon · Massachusetts v. Sheppard · 130 Wis. 2d 443 - State v. Brady · 7 Wash. App. 594 - State v. Franks · 113 Wash. 2d 178 - In Re Eng
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[u]nder a constitutional government such as ours, there can be no such thing as an office de facto, as distinguished from an officer de facto. Hence, the general rule that the acts of an officer de facto are valid has no application where the office itself does not exist.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“and the office is regarded as a de facto office until the act or ordinance is declared invalid.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“official attempt was made to `create' the `office' in question by act or ordinance.”
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.