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← 35 Wash. App. 362 - Benson v. Roberts

35 Wash. App. 362 - Benson v. Roberts’s Empirical Analysis

1983

Citation profile

8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
April 1993
most recently cited

8 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 97 Wash. 2d 118 - Human Rights Commission v. Cheney School District No. 30 · 90 Wash. 2d 210 - Strunk v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance · 13 Wash. App. 697 - Lane v. Ocosta School District No. 172 · State ex rel. Caffrey v. Superior Court · Van Dyke v. School District Number 77

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.

  1. “When a material change in a statute is made, a change in legislative intent is presumed.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “Any person . . . aggrieved by any decision ... of any school official . . . within thirty days after the rendition of such decision or order, or of the failure to act upon the same when properly presented, may appeal the same to the superior court of the county in which the school district or part thereof is situated, by filing with the secretary of the school board if the appeal is from board action or failure to act, otherwise with the proper school official, and filing with the clerk of the superior court, a notice of appeal which shall set forth in a clear and concise manner the errors complained of.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “[m]erely changing the name of the action [to breach of contract] will not be sufficient to permit plaintiffs to change the forum and consequently avoid the time limit for appeal.”
    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.