63 Wash. 2d 94 - Ledgering v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently September 2009 · most notably 82 Wash. 2d 872 - State v. Scheffel (1973), 77 Wash. 2d 616 - Maynard Inv. Co., Inc. v. McCann (1970)
34 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 United States v. Chemical Foundation, Inc. · United States v. Morgan · Old Colony Trust Co. v. Commissioner · Prentis v. Atlantic Coast Line Co. · School District No. 3 of Adams v. Callahan
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Morgan, 313 U.S. at 422 , 61 S.Ct. 999 (citation omitted). In the absence of evidence to the contrary, courts should”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““. . . [T]he rule that requires an executive officer to exercise his own judgment and discretion in making an order of such nature does not preclude him from utilizing, as a matter of practical administrative procedure, the aid of subordinates directed by him to investigate and report the facts and their recommendation in relation to the advisability of the order, and also to draft it in'the first instance. [Citing cases.] It suffices that the judgment and discretion finally exercised and the orders finally made by the superintendent were actually his own; and that there then attaches thereto the presumption of regularity in order to effectuate the intent manifested thereby. . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“authority of exercising the discretion and power of decision.”
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.