127 Wash. 2d 339 - Connell v. Francisco’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably In Re Parentage of LB (2005), 155 Wash. 2d 679 - Carvin v. Britain (2005)
2 federal appellate · 61 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 125 Wash. 2d 865 - In Re the Marriage of Short · 101 Wash. 2d 299 - In Re the Marriage of Lindsey · 31 Wash. 2d 345 - Creasman v. Boyle · 81 Wash. 2d 72 - In Re Estate of Thornton · Buckley v. Buckley
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A meretricious relationship is a stable, marital-like relationship where both parties cohabit with knowledge that a lawful marriage between them does not exist.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he trial court then: (1) evaluates the interest each party has in the property acquired during the relationship, and (2) makes a just and equitable distribution of the property. Lindsey, 101 Wash.2d at 307 , 678 P.2d 328 ; Community Property Deskbook § 2.64. The critical focus is on property that would have been characterized as community property had the parties been married.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“Until the Legislature, as a matter of public policy, concludes meretricious relationships are the legal equivalent to marriages, we limit the distribution of property following a meretricious relationship to property that would have been characterized as community property had the parties been married.”
4 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.