55 Wash. App. 18 - McKasson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently May 2011
12 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 18 Cal. 3d 335 - Goodman v. Kennedy · 110 Wash. 2d 682 - State v. Scott · 109 Wash. 2d 107 - Haberman v. Washington Public Power Supply System · State v. Garcia · 111 Wash. 2d 159 - Taylor v. Stevens County
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In each of these `failure to enforce' cases, there was a specific directive to the governmental employee as to what should be done.... [T]here is no such directive in the Securities Act statutes or the associated regulations. Instead, the statutes and the regulations are replete with "mays", and throughout the statutes, broad discretion is vested in the director.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““As to the performance of building code inspections, a duty shall continue to be recognized where a public official knew of an inherently dangerous and hazardous condition, is under a duty to correct the problem and fails to meet this duty.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“mandatory duty for the Division to take specific action in response to the failure of a licensee to file audited statements”
2 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.