Hallum v. Mullins’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Best v. District of Columbia · Webster v. L. Romano Engineering Corp. · 76 Wash. 2d 759 - Halvorson v. Birchfield Boiler, Inc. · 75 Wash. 2d 494 - Scott v. Rainbow Ambulance Service, Inc. · 8 Wash. App. 921 - Loger v. Washington Timber Products, Inc.
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“only when such statement shows affirmatively that there is no cause of action, or that there is a full and complete defense thereto, or when it is expressly admitted that the facts stated are the only facts which the party expects or intends to prove, that the court is warranted in acting upon it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]rial courts are unquestionably empowered to dispose of civil actions on the opening statement of counsel for a party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“prevent the unnecessary expenditure of time and money to both litigants and court”
1 later decision 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.