Terry v. Mazur’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 62 Wash. 2d 645 - State Ex Rel. Washington State Finance Committee v. Martin · 35 Wash. 2d 1 - Gruen v. State Tax Commission · Trucking Corporation v. Commonwealth · Almond v. Gilmer · Harrison v. Day
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.
“we have one criterion for determining the existence of unconstitutional debt: Is the full faith and credit of the Commonwealth pledged or committed? If not, no unconstitutional debt is created.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[I]f the political entity is made generally liable, then an indebtedness is created within the debt limitations of the Constitution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.