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State v. Keller’s Empirical Analysis

2001

Citation profile

59
cited by 59 later decisions
2
states following
January 2019
most recently cited

58 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 128 Wash. 2d 537 - Whatcom County v. City of Bellingham · State v. Thorne · 117 Wash. 2d 263 - State v. Smith · Davis v. Department of Licensing · 134 Wash. 2d 588 - State v. Morley

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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “is not ambiguous simply because different interpretations are conceivable.”
    7 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “obliged to discern any ambiguity by imagining a variety of alternative interpretations.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “[c]ourts should assume the Legislature means exactly what it says”
    3 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.