96 Wash. 2d 552 - Overton v. Economic Assistance Authority’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 121 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 134 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably 97 Wash. 2d 317 - Franklin County Sheriff's Office v. Sellers (1982), 109 Wash. 2d 207 - State v. Dunaway (1988)
6 federal appellate · 121 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 123 - Hearst Corp. v. Hoppe · 87 Wash. 2d 922 - Johnson v. Morris · 87 Wash. 2d 232 - In Re the Salary of the Juvenile Director · 87 Wash. 2d 267 - Norway Hill Preservation & Protection Ass'n v. King County Council · 91 Wash. 2d 132 - Vita Food Products, Inc. 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 134 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where an administrative agency is charged with administering a special field of law and endowed with quasi-judicial functions because of its expertise in that field, the agency's construction of statutory words and phrases and legislative intent should be accorded substantial weight when undergoing judicial review.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“But where this court has not previously interpreted the statute to mean something different and where the original enactment was ambiguous such to generate dispute as to what the legislature intended, the subsequent amendment shall be effective from the date of the original act, even in the absence of a provision for retroactivity.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“[B]oth history and uncontradicted authority make clear that it is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial branch to say what the law is[ ]”
6 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.