87 Wash. App. 670 - Hinton v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently February 2017
10 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 98 Wash. 2d 434 - Wilson v. Steinbach · 87 Wash. 2d 70 - Farmers Insurance v. Miller · 118 Wash. 2d 167 - Clark v. Pacificorp · 78 Wash. 2d 834 - Vedder v. Spellman · 30 Wash. App. 419 - Rainier National Bank v. Lewis
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]ords importing the singular number may also be applied to the plural of persons and things; words importing the plural may be applied to the singular; and words importing the masculine gender may be extended to females also.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[g]enerally, we construe `a' as applying to the plural as well as the singular, unless a contrary intention appears on the face of the statute.”
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.