39 Wash. 2d 94 - State v. Becker’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently May 1984
19 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 Batchelor v. Palmer · Hartig v. City of Seattle · Peterson v. King County · State v. Hoffman
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Repeals by implication are ordinarily not favored in law, and a later act will not operate to repeal an earlier act except in such instances where the later act covers the entire subject matter of the earlier legislation, is complete in itself, and is evidently intended to supersede the prior legislation on the subject, or unless the two acts are so clearly inconsistent with, and repugnant to, each other that they cannot, by a fair and reasonable construction, be reconciled and both giyen effect."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“where general and special laws are concurrent, the special law applies to the subject matter contemplated by it to the exclusion of the general law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Shriner
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.