State v. Ireland’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently May 2020
8 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 Robinson v. State of California · 105 Wash. 2d 120 - State v. Hornaday · State v. Flinchpaugh · State v. Brake · State v. Maestas
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the ejusdem generis canon of statutory construction ... provides that when a statute contains a list of specific words that relate to a certain type of item and those words are followed by a general word, the general word should be construed to embrace only objects similar in nature to those objects enumerated by the preceding specific words.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Coble“requir[ing] every word of a statute to be given effect so that no part of the statute will be inoperative or superfluous.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“unlawful possession or use of a controlled substance”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. C.P.B. v. State
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.