25 Wash. App. 741 - Spry v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently September 2009
11 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 81 Wash. 2d 155 - Barry & Barry, Inc. v. Department of Motor Vehicles · 88 Wash. 2d 368 - Washington State Liquor Control Board v. Washington State Personnel Board · 17 Wash. App. 529 - Expert Drywall, Inc. v. Brain · 2 Wash. App. 744 - Andrews Fixture Co. v. Olin · 83 Wash. 2d 453 - Northwest Cascade Construction, Inc. v. Custom Component Structures, Inc.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[o]nce the legislature has properly delegated rule-making authority to a state agency, that power is liberally construed.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“into an unwarranted shield for the avoidance of a just obligation.”
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.