95 Wash. 2d 753 - State v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently July 2007
12 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 266 - City of Tacoma v. O'Brien · 88 Wash. 2d 183 - Flanders v. Morris · 91 Wash. 2d 721 - Weyerhaeuser Co. v. King County · 77 Wash. 2d 812 - Kitsap-Mason Dairymen's Ass'n v. Washington State Tax Commission · 93 Wash. 2d 37 - Washington Education Ass'n v. State
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the new act is not complete but refers to a prior statute which is changed but not repealed by the new act, one is required to read both statutes before the full declaration of the legislative will on the subject can be ascertained. This causes the very obscurity and tendency to confuse which the constitutional provision seeks to prevent, hence violates the constitution.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“such a complete act that the scope of the rights or duties created or affected by the legislation action can be determined without referring to any other statute or enactment,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“straightforward determination of the scope of rights or duties under the existing statutes [would not] be rendered erroneous by the new enactment.”
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.