18 Wash. 2d 733 - Alexander v. Highfill’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently May 2011
15 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 Wine v. Commonwealth · In Re Phillips' Estate · Pratt Institute v. . City of New York · Sandahl v. Department of Labor & Industries · 83 Ind. App. 431 - Dailey v. Pugh
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where a law is amended and a material change is made in the wording, it is presumed that the legislature intended a change in the law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"* * * A revision of statutes implies a re-examination of them. The word is applied to a restatement of the law in a corrected or improved form. The restatement may be with or without material change. * * *"”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[I]n an action pending at the death of the defendant, the executor or administrator may be substituted by order of the court without a formal claim having been filed in the probate proceedings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Martin v. Wilbert
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.