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Washington Supreme Court / Joined 1981 / Served to 1993

Fred Hudson Dore

Justice, Washington Supreme Court

Fred Hudson Dore was a Justice of the Washington Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1981. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1925–1996
Tenure: 1981–1993 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1981	Washington Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Georgetown University

Judicial Record

In our data, Dore authored 174 published opinions for the court (1981–2009), plus 131 dissents and 42 concurrences. Most cited: Young v. Key Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (914 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 181 of these were attributed to Dore by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1989	Young v. Key Pharmaceuticals, Inc.· Concurrence†	770 P.2d 182	914
1985	State v. Guloy	705 P.2d 1182	721
1991	Olympic Steamship Co., Inc. v. Centennial Ins. Co.	811 P.2d 673	495
1991	State v. Hoffman· Dissent†	804 P.2d 577	461
1992	State v. Lord· Concurrence†	822 P.2d 177	447
1983	Bowers v. Transamerica Title Insurance· Concurrence†	675 P.2d 193	369
1986	Tank v. State Farm Fire and Casualty Co.· Concurrence†	715 P.2d 1133	314
1990	Boeing Co. v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co.	784 P.2d 507	266
1986	State v. Knapstad	729 P.2d 48	257
1986	Bering v. Share· Dissent†	721 P.2d 918	256
1982	Seattle Times Co. v. Ishikawa· Concurrence†	640 P.2d 716	254
1988	Taylor v. Stevens County	759 P.2d 447	233
1982	State v. Saltarelli· Dissent†	655 P.2d 697	227
2000	Boeing Company v. Sierracin Corporation	738 P.2d 665	210
1993	State v. Cauthron· Dissent†	846 P.2d 502	207

Showing the 15 most-cited of 347 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Washington Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Fred Hudson Dore on?: Fred Hudson Dore was a Justice of the Washington Supreme Court.

Sources

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12 years on the Washington Supreme Court. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).