104 Wash. 2d 142 - State v. Santos’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
85 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably 32 Cal. 4th 588 - Los Angeles County Department of Children & Family Services v. Heriberto C. (2004), In Re Custody of Shields (2006)
85 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 Armstrong v. Manzo · Little v. Streater · City of St. Louis v. Thomas W. Garland, Inc. · 24 Cal. 3d 22 - Salas v. Cortez · 84 Wash. 2d 135 - In Re the Welfare of Luscier
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`no individual should be bound by a judgment affecting his or her interests where he [or she] has not been made a party to the action.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“RCW 74.20.310 provides authority for the trial court to appoint a guardian ad litem when necessary. Appointment is necessary in a situation such as this, where there was no scientific proof of parentage and more than one potential father could have been identified with minimum investigation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[m]istakes, inadvertence, surprise, excusable neglect or irregularity in obtaining a judgment or order”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.