91 Wash. 2d 767 - Janovich v. Herron’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently January 2021 · most notably 108 Wash. 2d 162 - Herron v. Tribune Publishing Co. (1987), 111 Wash. 2d 591 - State v. Irizarry (1988)
43 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 Nebraska Press Assn. v. Stuart · Wesberry v. Sanders · 82 Wash. 2d 549 - Department of Revenue v. Hoppe · 79 Wash. 2d 417 - Murphy v. Campbell Investment Co. · 89 Wash. 2d 23 - Strenge v. Clarke
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`is to ascertain and give effect to the intent of the legislature.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“the constitutional and statutory provisions ... recognizing in the people a broad right to recall their elected officials, contemplate that officials may be recalled for misconduct during a prior term of office.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] `fundamental guide to statutory construction is that the spirit or intention of the law prevails over the letter of the law.'”
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.