State v. Keller’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
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.
“is not ambiguous simply because different interpretations are conceivable.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“obliged to discern any ambiguity by imagining a variety of alternative interpretations.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[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.