96 Wash. 2d 538 - Emwright v. King County’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently December 2013 · most notably 103 Wash. 2d 165 - State v. Ryan (1984), 126 Wash. 2d 136 - State v. Brett (1995)
58 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 84 Wash. 2d 498 - State v. Smith · 92 Wash. 2d 620 - State v. McIntyre · 94 Wash. 2d 208 - State v. Edwards · 40 Wash. 2d 451 - Household Finance Corp. v. State · 93 Wash. 2d 80 - State Ex Rel. Nugent v. Lewis
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[A]n interpretation which gives effect to both provisions is the preferred interpretation.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“definite and analytical lines marking the separation of powers often cannot be drawn and there must necessarily be `some mingling and overlapping of powers between the three separate departments of our government.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`practice and procedure pertain to the essentially mechanical operations of the courts by which substantive law, rights, and remedies are effectuated.'”
2 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.