Independent Towers Of Washington v. State Of Washington’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 13 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 201 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Chong Shin Chen v. Ashcroft (2004), Ford v. McI Communications Corporation Health and Welfare Plan McI Itt (2005)
6 federal appellate · 13 district · 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 Rice v. Santa Fe Elevator Corp. · Cipollone v. Liggett Group, Inc. · United States v. Dunkel · Greenwood v. Federal Aviation Administration · City of Columbus v. Ours Garage & Wrecker Service, 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 201 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[j]udges are not like pigs, hunting for truffles buried in briefs'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Our adversarial system relies on the advocates to inform the discussion and raise the issues to the court.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Except as provided in paragraphs (2) and (3), a State, political subdivision of a State, or political authority of 2 or more states may not enact or enforce a law, regulation, or other provision having the force and effect of law related to a price, route, or service of any motor carrier ... with respect to the transportation of property.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.