State v. Sweany’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
30
cited by 30 later decisions
1
states following
May 2025
most recently cited
30 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 94 Wash. 2d 216 - State v. Green · State v. Jacobs · Restaurant Development, Inc. v. Cananwill, Inc. · State v. Ervin · State v. Gonzalez
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When interpreting a statute, our fundamental objective is to determine and give effect to the intent of the legislature.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Beauregard v. Riley
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.