Waggoner v. Ace Hardware Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably State, Dept. of Ecology v. Campbell & Gwinn (2002), Department of Ecology v. Campbell & Gwinn, L.L.C. (2002)
41 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 90 Wash. 2d 384 - Holland v. Boeing Company · 96 Wash. 2d 552 - Overton v. Economic Assistance Authority · 119 Wash. 2d 178 - Kadoranian v. Bellingham Police Department · Arkansas Public Service Commission v. United States of America and Interstate Commerce Commission · 127 Wash. 2d 281 - State v. McCraw
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]e presume legislative consistency when called upon to construe statutory enactments or new amendments to old ones”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[W]here a former statute is amended, such amendment is strong evidence of legislative intent of the first statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[i]t would be most anomalous for the Legislature to criminalize and protect the same conduct at the same time.”
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.