93 Wash. 2d 205 - Coulter v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently November 2013 · most notably Manor v. Nestle Food Co. (1997), Medina v. Public Utility Dist. No. 1 (2002)
3 federal appellate · 26 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 85 Wash. 2d 810 - Hunter v. North Mason School Dist. · 87 Wash. 2d 145 - Haddenham v. State · 22 Wash. App. 163 - Peterick v. State · 237 Cal. App. 2d 416 - State Compensation Insurance Fund v. Superior Court · 8 Wash. App. 921 - Loger v. Washington Timber Products, Inc.
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The legislature shall direct by law, in what manner, and in what courts, suits may be brought against the state.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“the department would sue itself, thus becoming both plaintiff and defendant”
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.