Patten v. Ackerman’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on 98 Wash. 2d 434 - Wilson v. Steinbach · Kirk v. State · 111 Wash. 2d 903 - Phillips v. City of Seattle · Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Dowd & Dowd, Ltd. · 28 Wash. 2d 1 - State v. Northwest Magnesite Co.
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“exclude[d] as employees any individual employed by his or her parents or spouse.”
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.