81 Wash. 2d 234 - State v. Anderson’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2021 · most notably Brockett v. Spokane Arcades, Inc. (1985), 121 Wash. 2d 586 - Guimont v. Clarke (1993)
11 federal appellate · 41 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 Hill v. Wallace · 41 Wash. 2d 133 - State Ex Rel. Evans v. Brotherhood of Friends · Jensen v. Henneford · 39 Wash. 2d 191 - Power, Inc. v. Huntley · 74 Wash. 2d 82 - Boeing Co. v. State
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An act of the legislature is not 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.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“If any provision of this act or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the act or the application of the provision to other persons or circumstances is not affected.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he presence of a severability clause . . . offers to the courts the necessary assurance that the remaining provisions would have been enacted without the portions which are contrary to the constitution.”
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.