48 Wash. App. 599 - Sperry v. Maki’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on McBoyle v. United States · 104 Wash. 2d 518 - Britton v. Safeco Insurance Co. of America · 80 Wash. 2d 327 - Touchette v. Northwestern Mutual Insurance · 100 Wash. 2d 1 - Millers Casualty Insurance Co. of Texas v. Briggs · 92 Wash. 2d 748 - Finney v. Farmers Insurance Co. of Washington
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although the result is always contingent on the particular wording involved, it has been almost invariably held, in the construction of statutes and regulations, that airplanes are not within the terms `vehicles,' `motor vehicles,' etc.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“is ordinarily understood to mean a machine designed to move solely on the land. Sperry v. Maki, 48 Wash.App. 599, 602 , 740 P.2d 342 , review denied, 109 Wash.2d 1014 (1987) (concluded the terms”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“every vehicle which is self-propelled and every vehicle which is propelled by electric power obtained from overhead trolley wires, but not operated upon rails.” RCW 46.04.670 further defines”
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.