84 Wash. 2d 645 - State v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
87 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably Waste Management of Seattle, Inc. v. Utilities & Transportation Commission (1994), 88 Wash. 2d 221 - State v. Wanrow (1977)
87 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 73 Wash. 2d 343 - Beach v. BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT OF SNOHOMISH CTY. · Tsutakawa v. Kumamoto · 81 Wash. 2d 672 - Champion v. Shoreline School District No. 412 · 80 Wash. 2d 797 - Hall v. Corp. of Catholic Archbishop · 18 Wash. 2d 7 - State v. Christensen
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] proviso in a statute must be construed in the light of the body of the statute, and in such a manner as to carry out the legislature's intent as manifested by the entire act and laws in pari materia therewith. Provisos operate as limitations upon or exceptions to the general terms of the statute to which they are appended and as such, generally, should be strictly construed with any doubt to be resolved in favor of the general provisions, rather than the exceptions.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“In ascertaining legislative purpose, statutes which stand in pari materia are to be read together as constituting a unified whole, to the end that a harmonious, total statutory scheme evolves which maintains the integrity of the respective statutes.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] proviso in a statute must be construed in the light of the body of the statute, and in such a manner as to carry out the legislature's intent as manifested by the entire act and laws in pari materia therewith.”
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.