State v. Comer’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently May 2020 · most notably 78 Wash. 2d 121 - State v. Golladay (1970), Hazzard v. Chase National Bank (1936)
2 federal appellate · 32 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 Industrial General Trust, Ltd. v. . Tod · State v. Lindberg · State v. Pettit · State v. Welty · State v. Linden
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The interpretation to be given written instruments, whether the procedure be civil or criminal, is a matter of law for the court, and not a question of fact . . . . State v. Richards, 97 Wash. 587 , 167 Pac. 47 . (p. 266)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“We hold that the proper construction of the trust deed is that the immunity clause does not destroy the trust created by the deed . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The commingling of trust funds with other funds does not destroy their character as trust funds.”
1 later decision 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.