124 Wash. 2d 402 - Walker v. Munro’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
145 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 145 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably 128 Wash. 2d 656 - Tanner Electric Cooperative v. Puget Sound Power & Light (1996), Amalgamated Transit v. State (2000)
145 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 Allen v. Wright · Saxbe v. Washington Post Co. · Hazeltine Corp. v. RCA Corp. · 109 Wash. 2d 107 - Haberman v. Washington Public Power Supply System · State v. Garcia
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 145 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) ... an actual, present and existing dispute, or the mature seeds of one, as distinguished from a possible, dormant, hypothetical, speculative, or moot disagreement, (2) between parties having genuine and opposing interests, (3) which involves interests that must be direct and substantial, rather than potential, theoretical, abstract or academic, and (4) a judicial determination of which will be final and conclusive.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]his court's original jurisdiction is governed by the constitution and, by the plain language of the constitution, does not include original jurisdiction in a declaratory judgment action.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[o]ne who is not adversely affected by a statute may not question its validity.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.