118 Wash. 2d 133 - Morris v. Blaker’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
125 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 125 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably State v. Tili (1999), Sherman v. State (1995)
125 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 Mathews v. Eldridge · 116 Wash. 2d 342 - Rozner v. City of Bellevue · 107 Wash. 2d 196 - In Re the Detention of LaBelle · Department of Treasury, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms v. Galioto · 97 Wash. 2d 929 - Bernethy v. Walt Failor's, Inc.
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 125 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he risk of erroneous deprivation of the right to a weapons permit is small in the circumstances present here, where a judicial determination of mental disorder and of some dangerwhether passive or aggressiveto self or others has already been made.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“No plausible justification exists to explain why those who have been convicted of violent crimes should be deemed capable of rehabilitation, but those who were previously involuntarily committed for treatment of a mental disorder are not.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ruff · In Re Bratz“(1) the private interest to be protected; (2) the risk of erroneous deprivation of that interest by the government’s procedures; and (3) the government’s interest in maintaining the procedures. [4]”
2 later decisions 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.