89 Wash. 2d 349 - State v. Herrmann’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
5 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on 62 Wash. 2d 645 - State Ex Rel. Washington State Finance Committee v. Martin · Rodriguez v. Jones · 8 Wash. 2d 93 - State Ex Rel. MacRi v. City of Bremerton · Spokane Truck & Dray Co. v. Hoefer · 83 Wash. 2d 797 - State v. O'CONNELL
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he attorney general shall be the legal advisor of the state officers, and shall perform such other duties as may be prescribed by law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Defend all actions and proceedings against any state officer or employee acting in his official capacity, in any of the courts of this state or the United States.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to end the proliferation of attorneys hired by various state agencies and place the authority for representation of state agencies in the Attorney General.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sanders v. State
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.