26 Wash. 2d 211 - Faunce v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently July 1985
4 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 McMurren v. Miller · National Bank of Commerce v. Davies
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether the word “shall,” as contained in a particular statute, is to be construed in an imperative sense or as ’ merely directory depends upon the intent of the legislature in its use of that word, such intent to be derived from the general, as well as specific, legislation upon the subject, and to be determined by recourse to the ordinary rules of construction.”
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.