92 Wash. 2d 823 - Lau v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently October 2012
3 federal appellate · 18 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 62 Wash. 2d 645 - State Ex Rel. Washington State Finance Committee v. Martin · 86 Wash. 2d 439 - Taskett v. King Broadcasting Co. · Vaughn v. Murray · 88 Wash. 2d 777 - Cascade Security Bank v. Butler · 78 Wash. 2d 48 - Pier 67, Inc. v. King County
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.
“(1) Justifiable reliance on the earlier law; (2) The nature and purpose of the overruling decision; (3) Res judicata; (4) Vested rights, if any, which may have accrued by reason of the earlier law; and [5] The effect retroactive application may have on the administration of justice in the courts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“in keeping with the general rule that an overruling decision is to be given retroactive effect, unless it is specifically provided otherwise”
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.