Fray v. Spokane County’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably 148 Wash. 2d 224 - > FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES, TENINO AERIE NO. 564 v. Grand Aerie of Fraternal Order of Eagles (2002), Tunstall Ex Rel. Tunstall v. Bergeson (2000)
44 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 118 Wash. 2d 801 - Cowiche Canyon Conservancy v. Bosley · Waste Management of Seattle, Inc. v. Utilities & Transportation Commission · State v. Thorne · State v. Thorne · Washington Fed. of State Emp. 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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] `mere reference to a section in the title of an act does not state a subject.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“for any excess of damages over the amount received or receivable”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Absent ambiguity, a statute's meaning must be derived from the wording of the statute itself without judicial construction or interpretation.”
3 later decisions 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.