31 Wash. App. 250 - Whatcom County v. Kane’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently July 2010 · most notably 125 Wash. 2d 500 - King v. Riveland (1994), 76 Wash. App. 470 - Kysar v. Lambert (1995)
25 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 Pavilonis v. King · Green v. White · Carter v. Telectron, Inc. · Clinton v. United States · Gordon v. U. S. Department of Justice
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in Washington, trial courts have the authority to enjoin a party from engaging in litigation upon a `specific and detailed showing of a pattern of abusive and frivolous litigation.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Yurtis v. Phipps · Bay v. Jensen“must be careful not to issue a more comprehensive injunction than is necessary to remedy proven abuses, and if appropriate the court should consider less drastic remedies.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Yurtis v. Phipps
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.