99 Wash. App. 237 - Whatcom County v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently March 2025
18 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Pembaur v. City of Cincinnati · McMillian v. Monroe County · Pitts v. County of Kern · Carter v. City of Philadelphia · Pusey v. City of Youngstown
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[plrosecuting attorneys are attorneys authorized by law to appear for and represent the state and the counties thereof in actions and proceedings before the courts and judicial officers.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sanchez“it is clear that a prosecutor acts for the county when performing administrative tasks unrelated to strictly prosecutorial functions such as hiring or promotion decisions”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“county prosecutors in Washington represent the State, not their counties, when prosecuting violations of state law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bryant
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.