90 Wash. 2d 248 - Eagan v. Spellman’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently May 2007
21 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 18 Cal. 3d 808 - Miller v. State of California · 29 Cal. 2d 848 - Kern v. City of Long Beach · 48 Wash. 2d 695 - Bakenhus v. City of Seattle · Baker v. Retirement Bd. of Allegheny Co. · 57 Ill. 2d 142 - Peters v. City of Springfield
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“At the time she became a member of PERS, Eagan acquired a vested right to a potential date of retirement and is entitled to have this right mature into a retirement allowance at age 70, subject, of course, to not being separated from employment by factors outside of PERS, i.e., factors truly relating to tenure.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“keeping the pension system flexible and maintaining its integrity.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“regulation of a term of public employment (tenure) which is the unchallenged right of the county to exercise unilaterally... unrelated to the contract rights involved in a pension scheme.”
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.