State Ex Rel. Scofield v. Easterday’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently December 2014 · most notably Amalgamated Transit v. State (2000), Washington Fed. of State Emp. v. State (1995)
31 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 Spokane Grain & Fuel Co. v. Lyttaker · State ex rel. Seattle Electric Co. v. Superior Court · Percival v. Cowychee & Wide Hollow Irrigation District · Whitfield v. Davies · In Re Hulet
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In assessing whether a title is general, it is not necessary that the title contain a general statement of the subject of an act; `[a] few well-chosen words, suggestive of the general subject stated, is all that is necessary.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Br. of Respondent at 9. ¶ 17 A general title need not contain a general statement of the subject of an act; rather,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Stannard
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.