79 Wash. 2d 147 - Ford v. Logan’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably 125 Wash. 2d 277 - Westerman v. Cary (1995), Spokane Co. v. State Ex Rel. Co. Comrs. (1998)
40 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 63 Wash. 2d 664 - Lenci v. City of Seattle · 77 Wash. 2d 144 - Petstel, Inc. v. County of King · State ex rel. Case v. Superior Court · Morrill v. Title Guaranty & Surety Co. · 73 Wash. 2d 85 - State Ex Rel. O'Connell v. Kramer
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Ordinances ... may be proposed by filing with the county council petitions bearing signatures of registered voters of the county equal in number to not less than ten percent of the votes cast in the county for the office of county executive at the last preceding election for county executive."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]ll political power is inherent in the people”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Such charter may be amended by proposals therefor submitted by the legislative authority of such city to the electors thereof at any general election after notice of said submission ... and ratified by a majority of the qualified electors voting thereon.”
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.