86 Wash. 2d 58 - Brewer v. Copeland’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently January 2007 · most notably 93 Wash. 2d 329 - State v. Smith (1980), 119 Wash. 2d 401 - State v. Strauss (1992)
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 McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher · Williamson v. Lee Optical of Oklahoma, Inc. · Reed v. Reed · Village of Belle Terre v. Boraas · Silver v. Silver
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In contending RCW 46.08.080 violates plaintiff’s equal protection rights, plaintiff undertakes a heavy burden of persuasion. . . . She must overcome the presumption of constitutionality beyond a reasonable doubt. . . . When a statutory classification is challenged, it is presumed that facts sufficient to justify the classification exist. . . . Merely challenging the wisdom or expediency of the statute is not enough.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A trial court has the right to reject expert testimony in whole or in part in accordance with its views as to the persuasive character of that evidence. In light of the court's explanation, we cannot say the court acted arbitrarily or capriciously in refusing to accept the evidence as to proper speed.”
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.