87 Wash. 2d 717 - Ball v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably 91 Wash. 2d 342 - State v. Boyer (1979), 114 Wash. 2d 867 - State v. Henderson (1990)
37 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 81 Wash. 2d 448 - Siegler v. Kuhlman · 77 Wash. 2d 616 - Maynard Inv. Co., Inc. v. McCann · 49 Wash. 2d 66 - State v. Case · 83 Wash. 2d 22 - Foisy v. Wyman · 73 Wash. 2d 303 - State v. Peterson
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is the established and unquestioned rule that it is in the province of the court, and not the jury, to interpret a statute or ordinance and to determine whether it applies to the conduct of a party. . . . It is accordingly the general rule that a witness is not permitted to give his opinion on a question of domestic law or upon matters which involve questions of law. ... As was said in State v. Ballard, 394 S.W.2d 336 (Mo. 1965), one of the cornerstones of our system of jurisprudence is that questions of fact are to be determined by a jury, and that all matters of law are to be determined and declared by the court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A party cannot request an instruction and later complain on appeal that the instruction should not have been given.18”
2 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.