State v. Tausick’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently July 1989 · most notably Sarlls, City Clerk v. State, Ex Rel. (1929), 103 Wash. 2d 663 - City of Seattle v. State (1985)
32 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Ex parte Pollard · State v. Rogers · Spokane Grain & Fuel Co. v. Lyttaker · Phœnix Assurance Co. v. Fire Department · Savage v. Wallace
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It cannot be any objection to this law that, in order to ascertain powers granted to cities organized under it, it becomes necessary to refer to existing laws relative to cities of the second class. The courts have repeatedly recognized the validity of reference statutes, a common and approved method of legislation in the absence of constitutional restrictions.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Any election which is not regularly held for the election of officers, or for some other purpose which shall come before the electors at regular fixed intervals, is necessarily a special election.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Whorton v. Bager
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.