119 Wash. 2d 711 - State v. Belgarde’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
150 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 150 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably 122 Wash. 2d 1 - Matter of Personal Restraint of Young (1993), State v. Finch (1999)
150 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 110 Wash. 2d 504 - State v. Belgarde · 116 Wash. 2d 1 - American Legion Post No. 32 v. City of Walla Walla · 108 Wash. 2d 679 - City of Tacoma v. Taxpayers of City of Tacoma · 83 Wash. 2d 523 - Aetna Life Insurance v. Washington Life & Disability Insurance Guaranty Ass'n · 103 Wash. 2d 203 - City of Bellevue v. Acrey
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 150 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when a statutory term is undefined, dictionaries may be consulted to determine its meaning”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“'A statute operates prospectively when the precipitating event for [its] application ... occurs after the effective date of the statute ....' " (alterations in original) (quoting Aetna Life Ins. Co., 83 Wash.2d at 535 , 520 P.2d 162 ) ). ¶ 53 What is the "triggering event”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] law is not retroactive merely because some of the requisites for its application ' "are drawn from a time antecedent to its passage”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Flint · State v. Jefferson
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.