82 Wash. 2d 694 - Knowles v. Holly’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably 88 Wash. 2d 221 - State v. Wanrow (1977), 85 Wash. 2d 441 - Hama Hama Co. v. Shorelines Hearings Board (1975)
3 federal appellate · 57 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 77 Wash. 2d 94 - Washington Natural Gas Co. v. Public Utility District No. 1 · 71 Wash. 2d 705 - State v. Roadhs · 32 Wash. 2d 13 - State Ex Rel. Washington Toll Bridge Authority v. Yelle · 80 Wash. 2d 633 - Roza Irrigation District v. State · 43 Wash. 2d 214 - Roehl v. Public Utility District No. 1
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Pursuant to' means 'in the course of carrying out; in conformance to or agreement with: according to' and when used in a statute, is a restrictive term.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“which refer to, and by reference adopt wholly or partially, preexisting statutes or which refer to other statutes and make them applicable to an existing subject of legislation. They are frequently used to avoid encumbering the statute books by unnecessary repetition....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“though a constitutional privilege and right, must be exercised under such reasonable legislative restrictions as will prevent intimidation, bribery and fraud and secure an honest, untrammeled and genuine expression of public sentiment. It is also true, however, that in the absence of constitutional inhibition all statutes tending to limit the citizen in the exercise of the right of suffrage should be liberally construed in his favor.”
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.