99 Wash. 2d 373 - Diamond v. Cross’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
152 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 154 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably 122 Wash. 2d 1 - Matter of Personal Restraint of Young (1993), 107 Wash. 2d 196 - In Re the Detention of LaBelle (1986)
152 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 Gault · Memphis Light, Gas & Water Division v. Craft · O'Connor v. Donaldson · Cole v. State of Arkansas · Schmidt v. Lessard
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 154 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the public or private nature of the question presented; (2) the desirability of an authoritative determination which will provide future guidance to public officers; and (3) the likelihood that the question will recur.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“A case is moot if a court can no longer provide effective relief.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“When jurisdiction is, by the Constitution of this state, or by statute, conferred on a court or judicial officer all the means to carry it into effect are also given; and in the exercise of the jurisdiction, if the course of proceeding is not specifically pointed out by statute, any suitable process or mode of proceeding may be adopted which may appear most conformable to the spirit of the laws.”
4 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.