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State v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis

1999

Citation profile

18
cited by 18 later decisions
1
states following
November 2018
most recently cited

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

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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.

  1. “[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
  2. “`[t]he Legislature possesses a plenary power in matters of taxation except as limited by the Constitution.'”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “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.