31 Wash. App. 403 - State v. Olson’s Empirical Analysis

1982

Citation profile

cited by 22 later decisions

states following

November 2004

most recently cited

20 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently November 2004

20 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 70 Wash. 2d 988 - King County v. City of Seattle · 78 Wash. 2d 201 - Anderson v. City of Seattle · 61 Wash. 2d 246 - State v. Spino · State v. Spokane · 92 Wash. 2d 402 - PACIFIC FIRST FED. SAVINGS AND LOAN ASS'N v. State

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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“the court may not resort to judicial construction in order to rectify what may appear to be an unfair and injudicious result.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. McFreeze Corp. v. State, Dept. of Revenue · State v. Costich
“`It is only where the language is of doubtful meaning, or where an adherence to the strict letter of the statute would lead to absurd or incongruous results, or would make one part of the statute contradictory of another part, or where it is plain from the entire context and evident purpose of the statute that the language used on a particular matter did not express the legislative intent thereon, that the courts will depart from the literal wording.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. State v. Claypool
“literally ... the highest written offer in settlement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. State v. Costich

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.