Tonasket v. Washington’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 4 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2004 · most notably Bryan v. Itasca County (1976), Washington v. Confederated Bands & Tribes of the Yakima Indian Nation (1979)
8 federal appellate · 4 district · 9 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.
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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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The judgment of the Supreme Court of Washington is vacated, and the case is remanded to that Court for reconsideration in light of §§ 6 and 7 of c. 157,1972 Extraordinary Session Laws of the State of Washington, and this Court’s decision in McClanahan v. Arizona State Tax Comm’n, ante, p. 164 [ 411 U.S. 164 , 36 L. Ed. 2d 129 , 93 S. Ct. 1257 (1973)].”
1 later decision 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.