Corbaley v. Pierce County’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently October 1967 · most notably Beck v. Dye (1939), 72 Wash. 2d 183 - Bohnsack v. Kirkham (1967)
26 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 Scott v. Pacific Power & Light Co. · Hart v. Hogan · Brammer v. Lappenbusch · Richmond v. Tacoma Railway & Power Co. · Jensen v. Shaw Show Case Co.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The trial courts have wide discretion in granting or refusing new trials, and the exercising of this discretion in granting a new trial will not be interfered with except in situations in which purely questions of law are involved. Danielson v. Carstens Packing Co., 115 Wash. 516 , 197 Pac. 617 ; Leach v. Erickson, 161 Wash. 473 , 297 Pac. 738 ; Norland v. Peterson, 169 Wash. 380 , 13 P. (2d) 483 ; Hanna v. Bodler, 173 Wash. 460 , 23 P. (2d) 396 ; Boyd v. Cole, supra [ 189 Wash. 81 , 63 P. (2d) 931 ].””
2 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.