91 Wash. 2d 721 - Weyerhaeuser Co. v. King County’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently February 2020 · most notably 118 Wash. 2d 801 - Cowiche Canyon Conservancy v. Bosley (1992), 125 Wash. 2d 196 - Buechel v. Department of Ecology (1994)
3 federal appellate · 31 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 Bethlehem Steel Co. v. New York State Labor Relations Board · 85 Wash. 2d 441 - Hama Hama Co. v. Shorelines Hearings Board · 35 Wash. 2d 1 - Gruen v. State Tax Commission · Spokane Grain & Fuel Co. v. Lyttaker · 88 Wash. 2d 183 - Flanders v. Morris
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No act shall ever be revised or amended by mere reference to its title, but the act revised or the section amended shall be set forth at full length.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“constitute use regulations for the various shorelines of the state.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“But how often must we look to two or more acts to ascertain the full declaration of the legislative will. No one will for a moment doubt the power of the legislature to exempt homesteads by one act, household goods by another, farming implements by a third, and so on; yet the full declaration of the legislative will on the subject of exemptions could only be gathered by referring to these several acts. Followed to its logical conclusion, this argument would compel the legislature to embody in a single enactment, or in amendments thereto, all legislation relating to a single subject. Such was not the object or purpose of the provision in question. So long as a legislative act is complete in itself and does not tend to mislead or deceive, it is not violative of the constitution.”
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.