118 Wash. 2d 551 - State v. Elgin’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 130 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 131 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably 122 Wash. 2d 1 - Matter of Personal Restraint of Young (1993), 128 Wash. 2d 537 - Whatcom County v. City of Bellingham (1996)
1 federal appellate · 130 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 117 Wash. 2d 263 - State v. Smith · 116 Wash. 2d 794 - Cherry v. Municipality of Metropolitan Seattle · 114 Wash. 2d 572 - Multicare Medical Center v. Department of Social & Health Services · 112 Wash. 2d 347 - State v. Neher · 117 Wash. 2d 325 - Sidis v. Brodie/Dohrmann, 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 131 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“unlikely, absurd, or strained consequences.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“within the context of the entire statute.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“On matters of statutory interpretation, the ultimate authority to determine the meaning and purpose of the statute is vested in this court. Because the interpretation of a statute is a question of law, our review is de novo. Accordingly, we interpret [the statute] independently of the trial court's interpretation.”
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.