74 Wash. 2d 82 - Boeing Co. v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently July 2011 · most notably 89 Wash. 2d 592 - Childers v. Childers (1978), 113 Wash. 2d 929 - Forbes v. City of Seattle (1990)
43 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 41 Wash. 2d 133 - State Ex Rel. Evans v. Brotherhood of Friends · Spokane Grain & Fuel Co. v. Lyttaker · 67 Wash. 2d 97 - Black v. State · 54 Wash. 2d 799 - Hogue v. Port of Seattle · 8 Wash. 2d 360 - Texas Company v. Cohn
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any state of facts reasonably can be conceived that would sustain [the classification].”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“An act should not be declared unconstitutional in its entirety because one or more of its provisions is unconstitutional, unless the invalid provisions are unseverable and it cannot reasonably be believed that the legislature would have passed the one without the other, or unless the elimination of the invalid part would render the remainder of the act incapable of accomplishing the legislative purposes. Hogue v. Port of Seattle, 54 Wn.2d 799 , 341 P.2d 171 (1959).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A]n unconstitutional law, in legal contemplation, is as inoperative as if it had never been passed and never existed.”
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.