39 Wash. 2d 481 - Davis v. Gibbs’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 2018
15 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 State ex rel. Blakeslee v. Clausen · State v. Hemrich · City of Traverse City v. Township of Blair · State v. Bailey · Dunn v. City of Centralia
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where no contrary intention appears in a statute, relative and qualifying words and phrases, both grammatically and legally, refer to the last antecedent.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“can refer to without impairing the meaning of the sentence.”
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.