82 Wash. App. 53 - Brower v. Charles’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently May 2016
11 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 111 Wash. 2d 828 - Kreidler v. Eikenberry · Winsor v. Bridges · Langdon v. City of Walla Walla · 91 Wash. 2d 269 - State Ex Rel. Moore v. Houser · 71 Wash. App. 84 - Save Our State Park v. Hordyk
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“may be invoked to prohibit judicial, legislative, executive, or administrative acts if the official or body to whom it is directed is acting in excess of its power.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The language of the statute is very broad and grants the Manager complete discretion to determine whether a special election is warranted. ... Once [the request was delivered], the act of calling a special election was entirely within his discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“arrests the proceedings of any tribunal, corporation, board or person, when such proceedings are without or in excess of the jurisdiction of such tribunal, corporation, board or person.”
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.