State v. Dydasco’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Baxstrom v. Herold · 122 Wash. 2d 1 - Matter of Personal Restraint of Young · 100 Wash. 2d 832 - Dunner v. McLaughlin · 102 Wash. 2d 466 - In Re the Personal Restraint of Knapp · 90 Wash. 2d 144 - Allison v. Patterson
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`Equal Protection does not require that all persons be dealt with identically, but it does require that a distinction made have some relevance to the purpose for which the classification is made.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]hen addressing the constitutionality of civil commitment statutes creating differing classes of persons, we apply rational basis scrutiny.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Equal Protection Clause requires that persons similarly situated with respect to the legitimate purposes of the laws receive like treatment.”
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.