62 Wash. 2d 324 - Pierce v. King County’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently October 2013 · most notably 75 Wash. 2d 715 - Smith v. Skagit County (1969), 80 Wash. 2d 518 - Buell v. City of Bremerton (1972)
59 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 Forbes v. Hubbard · Holly Development, Inc. v. Board of County Commissioners · Bd. of Zoning Ap. of Decatur v. Decatur, Ind. Co. of Jehovah's Witnesses · Kane v. Board of Appeals · McKenna v. New Jersey Highway Authority
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“this rule [that writs of certiorari must be sought within the time allowed for filing an appeal] is limited to cases arising in the courts, or in other judicial proceedings[.]”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“If petitioners are in a situation where they would not normally be expected to learn of the legislative action, where they are directly affected by it, and where they do not have actual knowledge, the time for the commencement of certiorari begins with acquisition of knowledge or with the occurrence of events from which notice ought to be inferred as a matter of law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“review the official acts of a public officer, or an organ of government”
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.