16 Wash. App. 77 - State v. Petersen’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently October 2003
13 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 Bell v. Burson · 82 Wash. 2d 872 - State v. Scheffel · Peyton v. Peyton · 15 Wash. 2d 345 - National Bank of Washington v. McCrillis · 79 Wash. 2d 69 - STATE EX REL. SNOHOMISH CTY. v. Sperry
Most-quoted passages
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“lacks the inherent power to enter the order involved.” Petersen, 16 Wn. App. at 79 (citing Bresolin, 86 Wn.2d at 245 ; Anderson, 52 Wn.2d at 761 )(additional citation omitted). A trial court has no discretion when faced with a void judgment, and must vacate the judgment”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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