76 Wash. App. 202 - State v. Sunich’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently August 2010 · most notably State v. Tili (1999), 83 Wash. App. 825 - State v. Hahn (1996)
39 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 118 Wash. 2d 801 - Cowiche Canyon Conservancy v. Bosley · 122 Wash. 2d 772 - Matter of Personal Restraint of Riley · 74 Wash. App. 787 - State v. Kuhn · 111 Wash. 2d 784 - Armstrong v. Safeco Insurance · 64 Wash. App. 165 - Oestreich v. Department of Labor & Industries
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]his court reviews a trial court's determination of the meaning of a statute de novo, with the primary purpose of giving effect to the intent of the Legislature.”
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.