92 Wash. 2d 878 - Henry v. Thorne’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
December 2006
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 78 Wash. 2d 452 - State Ex Rel. Carroll 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`conduct their purely local affairs without supervision by the State, so long as they abide[] by the provisions of the constitution and [do] not run counter to considerations of public policy of broad concern, expressed in general laws.'”
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.