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1981

Citation profile

59
cited by 59 later decisions
2
states following
December 2013
most recently cited

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

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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.

  1. “`[A]n interpretation which gives effect to both provisions is the preferred interpretation.'”
    6 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “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
  3. “`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.