53 Wash. App. 456 - Bernstein v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently January 2001
16 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 Jones v. United States · 4 Wash. 2d 498 - Shelton Hotel Co., Inc. v. Bates · 92 Wash. 2d 370 - McCarver v. Manson Park and Recreation District · 68 Wash. 2d 644 - McKinnon v. WN. FED. SAV. & LOAN ASS'N · Tijerina v. Cornelius Christian Church
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Plaintiff resorts to legislative history to urge ambiguity where none exists. Where the language of a statute is clear and unambiguous, there is no room for judicial construction. Resort to legislative history in such circumstances is thus inappropriate. . . . [W]hen a statute's meaning is apparent from the language used, there is no reason to look beyond its wording.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a known dangerous artificial latent condition for which warning signs have not been conspicuously posted” which preclude summary judgment. See RCW 4.24.210. For purposes of the recreational use immunity statute,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“encourage owners or others in lawful possession and control of land and water areas or channels to make them available to the public for recreational purposes.”
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.