State v. Blilie’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
78 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably State v. JP (2003), State v. J.P. (2003)
78 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 Mistretta v. United States · Bose Corp. v. Consumers Union of United States, Inc. · Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Schor · 103 Wash. 2d 165 - State v. Ryan · 80 Wash. 2d 547 - Sorenson v. City of Bellingham
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The rational relationship test is the most relaxed and tolerant form of judicial scrutiny under the equal protection clause. Under this test, the legislative classification will be upheld unless it rests on grounds wholly irrelevant to achievement of legitimate state objectives. The burden of proving the legislative classification unconstitutional is upon the party challenging the legislation. That party has the heavy burden of overcoming a presumption that the statute is constitutional.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“`not whether two branches of government engage in coinciding activities, but rather whether the activity of one branch threatens the independence or integrity or invades the prerogatives of another.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ramos · In Re Hudgens“Under the equal protection clause, persons similarly situated with respect to the purposes of [a] law must receive like treatment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.