96 Wash. 2d 568 - MacUmber v. Shafer’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably 119 Wash. 2d 452 - In Re F.D. Processing, Inc. (1992), 102 Wash. 2d 170 - Miebach v. Colasurdo (1984)
2 federal appellate · 51 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 Home Building & Loan Ass'n v. Blaisdell · City of El Paso v. Simmons · 83 Wash. 2d 523 - Aetna Life Insurance v. Washington Life & Disability Insurance Guaranty Ass'n · 85 Wash. 2d 637 - Johnston v. Beneficial Management Corp. of America · 87 Wash. 2d 145 - Haddenham 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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“enacted as a matter of public policy . . ., [is] favored in the law and [is] accorded a liberal construction.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]f a statute is remedial in nature and retroactive application would further its remedial purpose,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“First, reservations of certain "essential attributes of sovereign power" must be read into every contract. [Home Bldg. & Loan Ass'n v. Blaisdell, 290 U.S. 398, 435 , 54 S.Ct. 231 , 78 L.Ed. 413 (1934) ]. Thus, by increasing the amount of the homestead exemption in response to increases in the cost of living, the Legislature merely exercised its sovereign power implicitly reserved in the contract. Consequently, the Legislature's action does not constitute an impairment of contract per se. Second, the increase in the exemption does not impair the contractual obligation. It merely modifies the remedy. An unsecured creditor may still seek judgment against the debtor. The only change is that the amount available to a creditor has been decreased by an additional $10,000.”
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.