State v. Engel’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 97 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 99 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Lake v. Woodcreek Homeowners Ass'n (2010), State v. Gonzalez (2010)
1 federal appellate · 97 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 State v. Jacobs · 125 Wash. 2d 707 - State v. Byrd · State v. Roggenkamp · State v. Jacobs · State v. Wentz
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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is to be discerned from the ordinary meaning of the language at issue, the context of the statute in which that provision is found, related provisions, and the statutory scheme as a whole.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“as that term was intended to be interpreted by the legislature. However, where the fence is of such a nature that it is erected mainly for the purpose of protecting property within its confines and is, in fact, an integral part of a closed compound, its function becomes analogous to that of a”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Interpretation of a statute is a question of law that we review de novo.”
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.