126 Wash. 2d 315 - State v. Olson’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 170 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 177 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably State v. Thomas (2004), Kitsap County v. Allstate Ins. Co. (1998)
3 federal appellate · 170 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 126 Wash. 2d 50 - Queen City Farms, Inc. v. Central Nat'l Ins. Co. of Omaha · 96 Wash. 2d 215 - State v. Williams · 81 Wash. 2d 259 - State v. Reader's Digest Ass'n · 92 Wash. 2d 21 - Transamerica Insurance Group v. United Pacific Insurance · Denham v. National Labor Relations Board
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 177 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In a case where the nature of the appeal is clear and the relevant issues are argued in the body of the brief and citations are supplied so that the court is not greatly inconvenienced and the respondent is not prejudiced, there is no compelling reason for the appellate court not to exercise its discretion to consider the merits of the case or issue.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“[applying strict form would defeat the purpose of the rules to `promote justice and facilitate the decision of cases on the merits'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“issues pertaining to the assignments of error”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ang v. Martin · State v. Ross
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.