74 Wash. 2d 600 - In Re Elliott’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently October 2019 · most notably 162 W. Va. 857 - Morningstar v. Black & Decker Manufacturing Co. (1979), Arizona Downs v. Arizona Horsemen's Foundation (1981)
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 63 state decisions — followed in 15 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1652 (Rules of Decision Act)
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · William Marbury v. James Madison · Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Estate J Bosch Second National Bank of New Haven · Bernhardt v. Polygraphic Co. of America, Inc.
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If there ever was a way in which to delay a case as it moves slowly through the court, in my opinion, it would be the very procedure whereby at one stage the case comes to a halt in the federal system, moves over into the state system to await docketing, briefing, hearing, writing, filing of the opinion and petition for rehearing and then moves back into the system of origin to take its place on the judicial conveyor for resumption of proceedings in the federal system.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the local law has not been clearly determined.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he supreme court shall have original jurisdiction in habeas corpus, and quo warranto and mandamus as to all state officers, and appellate jurisdiction in all actions and proceedings”
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.