Wallace v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently January 2011
3 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 Link v. Wabash Railroad · Chambers v. Nasco, Inc. · Roadway Express, Inc. v. Piper · State v. Simpson · United States v. Alaska
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“with potential defendants who have not actually been sued, and (ii) there is no rational basis for treating these classes differently. We reject such insubstantial constitutional arguments as”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wallace v. Evans“`Dilatoriness of a type not described by CR 41(b)(1)' refers to unacceptable litigation practices other than mere inaction, whatever the duration.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“having concluded it has no authority under Snohomish v. Thorp to dismiss if the case is noted before the hearing of the dismissal motion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Wallace v. Evans
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.