98 Wash. 2d 375 - Noel v. Cole’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably 113 Wash. 2d 869 - Boeing Co. v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. (1990), 102 Wash. 2d 874 - Chemical Bank v. Washington Public Power Supply System (1984)
45 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 82 Wash. 2d 475 - Eastlake Community Council v. Roanoke Associates, Inc. · 74 Wash. 2d 161 - Finch v. Matthews · 82 Wash. 2d 109 - Stempel v. Department of Water Resources · 90 Wash. 2d 59 - Polygon Corp. v. City of Seattle · Green v. Okanogan 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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The types of actions included as categorical exemptions in the rules shall be limited to those types which are not major actions significantly affecting the quality of the environment. The rules shall provide for certain circumstances where actions which potentially are categorically exempt require environmental review.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“At the least, administratively created exemptions [guidelines] must be construed to apply only when the particular action in question is not a major action significantly affecting the environment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“protect the citizens and taxpayers . . . from unjust, ill-considered, or extortionate contracts, or those showing favoritism.”
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.