96 Wash. App. 581 - Schofield v. Spokane County’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably City of University Place v. McGuire (2001), PIONEER PARK v. Mercer Island (2001)
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 City of Redmond v. Central Puget Sound Growth Management Hearings Board · Skagit Surveyors v. FRIENDS OF SKAGIT · 84 Wash. App. 663 - Callecod v. Washington State Patrol · Citizens for Mount Vernon v. Mount Vernon · 86 Wash. App. 673 - Davidson v. Kitsap County
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[S]ubstantial evidence is `a sufficient quantity of evidence to persuade a fair-minded person of the truth or correctness of the order.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“`[w]e view inferences in a light most favorable to the party that prevailed in the highest forum exercising factfinding authority.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“is an erroneous interpretation of the law, after allowing for such deference as is due the construction of a law by a local jurisdiction with expertise.”
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.