99 Wash. 2d 815 - Grant v. Spellman’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2014 · most notably 106 Wash. 2d 1 - Seven Gables Corp. v. MGM/UA Entertainment Co. (1986), PUBLIC UTILITY DIST. v. State, Dept. of Ecology (2002)
3 federal appellate · 28 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 Stanley v. Illinois · Lemon v. Kurtzman · Sherbert v. Verner · Everson v. Board of Education · Cooper v. State of California
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When interpreting a statute, every presumption favors validity of an act of the Legislature, all doubts must be resolved in support of an act, and it will not be declared unconstitutional unless it clearly appears to be so.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“based on either (1) bona fide religious tenets, or (2) teachings of a church or religious body of which the person is a member,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“distinguish between personal and denominational religious beliefs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.