Litz v. Pierce County’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 2012
6 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · 100 Wash. 2d 299 - J & B Development Co. v. King County · 102 Wash. 2d 874 - Chemical Bank v. Washington Public Power Supply System · 105 Wash. 2d 551 - Emrich v. Connell · 91 Wash. 2d 19 - Duckworth v. City of Bonney Lake
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) an admission, statement, or act, inconsistent with the claim afterwards asserted; (2) action by the other party on the faith of such admission, statement, or act; and (3) injury to such other party arising from permitting the first party to contradict or repudiate such admission, statement, or act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“prevent a manifest injustice, and the exercise of governmental powers will not thereby be impaired.'”
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.