State v. Wiggins

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding if a statute is susceptible to two constructions—one of which will promote the purpose of the statute and the second of which will defeat it—the courts will adopt the former
• concluding if a statute “is susceptible to two constructions — one of which will promote the purpose of the statute and the second of which will defeat it — [the] courts will adopt the former”

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Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Luther
  Washington Supreme Court· 2006-05-18· cited 71×
• Postema v. Postema Enterprises, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2003-07-21· cited 26×
• State v. Wiggins
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2002-11-26· cited 9×
• Postema v. Postema Enterprises, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2003-08-28· cited 7×
• Estate of Bunch v. McGraw Residential Center
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2011-02-07· cited 3×
• ESTATE OF BUNCH EX REL. BUNCH v. McGRAW RESIDENTIAL CTR.
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2011-02-07· cited 1×
• Ahmet Hopovac v. State of Washington
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2017-02-14· cited 1×
• State v. Wiggins
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2002-09-05

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Department of Ecology v. Campbell & Gwinn, L.L.C.
  Washington Supreme Court· 2002-03-28· cited 1,615×
• State, Dept. of Ecology v. Campbell & Gwinn
  Washington Supreme Court· 2002-03-28· cited 1,608×
• State v. J.M.
  Washington Supreme Court· 2001-08-02· cited 238×
• City of Tacoma v. Taxpayers of City of Tacoma
  Washington Supreme Court· 1987-08-27· cited 139×
• City of Seattle v. Fontanilla
  Washington Supreme Court· 1996-02-01· cited 134×
• Cherry v. Municipality of Metropolitan Seattle
  Washington Supreme Court· 1991-04-18· cited 123×
• State v. Bash
  Washington Supreme Court· 1996-11-07· cited 115×
• State v. Stannard
  Washington Supreme Court· 1987-09-24· cited 89×
• Roza Irrigation District v. State
  Washington Supreme Court· 1972-05-18· cited 77×
• State v. Dunbar
  Washington Supreme Court· 1991-10-17· cited 49×
• State v. Billups
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1991-07-29· cited 32×
• State v. Gilbert
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1993-01-11· cited 26×
• City of Walla Walla v. Topel
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2001-02-08· cited 15×
• City of Walla Walla v. Topel
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2001-02-20· cited 12×
• State v. Maganai
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1996-11-01· cited 7×
• State v. Watson
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1999-06-18· cited 2×