53 Wash. 2d 789 - State v. Paul’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2015 · most notably Washington v. Confederated Bands & Tribes of the Yakima Indian Nation (1979), Quinault Tribe of Indians v. Gallagher (1966)
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 14 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.
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Notwithstanding the provisions of any Enabling Act for the admission of a State, the consent of the United States is hereby given to the people of any State to amend, where necessary, there State constitution or existing statutes, as the case may be, to remove any legal impediment to the assumption of civil and criminal jurisdiction in accordance with the provisions of this Act: Provided, That the provisions of this Act shall not become effective with respect to such assumption of jurisdiction by any such State until the people thereof have appropriately amend ed their State constitution or statutes as the case may be.””
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“* * * irrevocable without the consent of the United States and the people of said States : * * *”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“The following ordinance shall be irrevocable without the consent of the United States and the people of this state : * * *”
3 later decisions 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.