78 Wash. 2d 711 - State v. Roth’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently January 2008 · most notably 115 Wash. 2d 148 - Schmidt v. Cornerstone Investments, Inc. (1990), 111 Wash. 2d 353 - In Re the Personal Restraint of Williams (1988)
68 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 65 Wash. 2d 827 - Krystad v. Lau · 65 Wash. 2d 573 - State Ex Rel. Hagan v. Chinook Hotel, Inc. · 59 Wash. 2d 623 - Vannoy v. Pacific Power & Light Co. · 67 Wash. 2d 574 - Ropo, Inc. v. City of Seattle · 69 Wash. 2d 574 - In Re City of Medina
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where there is no ambiguity in a statute, there is nothing for this court to interpret.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“Where different language is used in the same connection in different parts of a statute, it is presumed that a different meaning was intended.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“the judgment awarded as a result of the trial,”
3 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.