State v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently November 2018
1 federal appellate · 16 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 State v. Thorne · 62 Wash. 2d 645 - State Ex Rel. Washington State Finance Committee v. Martin · 35 Wash. 2d 1 - Gruen v. State Tax Commission · Island County v. State · 82 Wash. 2d 549 - Department of Revenue v. Hoppe
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here ... the issues involve the constitutionality of a statute and matters relating to the expenditure of public funds, it is appropriate for us to exercise our original jurisdiction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`[t]he Legislature possesses a plenary power in matters of taxation except as limited by the Constitution.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“An exercise of the initiative power is an exercise of the reserved power of the people to legislate.”
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.