In Re Anderson’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently March 2025
17 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 115 Wash. 2d 544 - In Re the Recall of Wade · 128 Wash. 2d 419 - In Re the Petition for Recall of Beasley · 125 Wash. 2d 683 - In Re the Recall of Shipman · City of Seattle v. Hein · 131 Wash. 2d 92 - In re the Recall of Anderson
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any wrongful conduct that affects, interrupts, or interferes with the performance of official duty.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the court ... may go outside the petition to determine whether there is a factual basis for the charge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Recall of West“`substantial conduct clearly amounting to misfeasance, malfeasance or violation of the oath of office.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.