State Supreme Court / Wash.

Seattle School District No. 1 v. State

Decided September 28, 1978. Robert F. Utter wrote the opinion for the court.

585 P.2d 71 · Cited 335 times

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Precedents cited

Decisions in our collection this opinion relies on, ordered by how often it cites each. Cases we publish link through; others open the full text.

In Re the Salary of the Juvenile Director · 552 P.2d 163
Public Utility District No. 1 v. Kottsick · 545 P.2d 1
Weiss v. Bruno · 523 P.2d 915
United States v. Nixon · 418 U.S. 683
Robinson v. Cahill · 303 A.2d 273
Swift v. Island County · 552 P.2d 175
Gaffney v. Cummings · 412 U.S. 735
State Ex Rel. O'Connell v. Slavin · 452 P.2d 943
State Ex Rel. Distilled Spirits Institute, Inc. v. Kinnear · 492 P.2d 1012
Northshore School District No. 417 v. Kinnear · 530 P.2d 178
Hsu Ying Li v. Tang · 557 P.2d 342
Plummer v. Gaines · 422 P.2d 17
Association of Data Processing Service Organizations, Inc. v. Camp · 397 U.S. 150
State Ex Rel. MacRi v. City of Bremerton · 111 P.2d 612
State Ex Rel. Lemon v. Langlie · 273 P.2d 464
State Ex Rel. Humiston v. Meyers · 380 P.2d 735
Lassila v. City of Wenatchee · 576 P.2d 54
Crane Towing, Inc. v. Gorton · 570 P.2d 428
Anderson v. Chapman · 543 P.2d 229
Washington State Highway Commission v. Pacific Northwest Bell Telephone Co. · 367 P.2d 605
Newman v. Schlarb · 50 P.2d 36
Hutchinson v. Port of Benton · 383 P.2d 500
Haines v. Anaconda Aluminum Co. · 549 P.2d 13
Brown v. Board of Education · 349 U.S. 294
Missouri v. Holland · 252 U.S. 416

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Brown v. State · 119 P.3d 341
Committee for Educational Rights v. Edgar · 672 N.E.2d 1178
City of Seattle v. McCready · 931 P.2d 156
Bellevue School Dist. v. Es · 257 P.3d 570
Ex Parte James · 713 So. 2d 869
Rose v. Council for Better Education, Inc. · 790 S.W.2d 186
Tunstall v. Bergeson · 141 Wash. 2d 201
City of Seattle v. State · 694 P.2d 641
McGowan v. State · 148 Wash. 2d 278
Idaho Schools for Equal Educational Opportunity v. State · 132 Idaho 559
ISEEO v. State · 976 P.2d 913
City of Sequim v. Malkasian · 138 P.3d 943
Brown v. State · 155 Wash. 2d 254
Seattle School District No. 1 v. State · 647 P.2d 25
Carrollton-Farmers Branch Independent School District v. Edgewood Independent School District · 826 S.W.2d 489

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