113 Wash. 2d 1 - Sutton v. Hirvonen’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably 121 Wash. 2d 552 - Hanson v. City of Snohomish (1993), Beal for Martinez v. City of Seattle (1998)
1 federal appellate · 22 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 Ashe v. Swenson · 72 Wash. 2d 22 - Weber v. Biddle · Dodrill v. Ludt · 41 Wash. App. 248 - In Re the Marriage of Maddix · Ward v. Magaha
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`A judgment which has been vacated is of no force or effect and the rights of the parties are left as though no such judgment had ever been entered.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'general rule [ ] that a judgment which is vacated, for whatever reason, is deprived of its conclusive effect as collateral estoppel'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.