124 Wash. 2d 26 - Weyerhaeuser v. Pierce County’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently August 2013 · most notably Citizens for Mount Vernon v. Mount Vernon (1997), King County v. CENTRAL PUGET SOUND GROWTH (1999)
59 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 · Richardson v. Perales · Wolff v. McDonnell · Goldberg v. Kelly · 118 Wash. 2d 801 - Cowiche Canyon Conservancy v. Bosley
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“include actions that could feasibly attain or approximate a proposal's objectives, but at a lower environmental cost or decreased level of environmental degradation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[R]egardless of whether the County deals with a private company, the collection and disposal of solid waste is the County's responsibility.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“reasonably thorough discussion of the significant aspects of the probable environmental consequences.”
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.