21 Wash. App. 413 - Fies v. Storey’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently April 2016
8 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 Standard Oil Company of California v. Moore · 12 Cal. 2d 618 - Johns v. Scobie · 86 Wash. 2d 112 - State v. Kreck · McFarland v. Department of Labor & Industries · 77 Wash. 2d 441 - McGugart v. Brumback
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"No person offered as a witness shall be excluded from giving evidence by reason of his or her interest in the event of the action, as a party thereto or otherwise, but such interest may be shown to affect his or her credibility: Provided, however, That in an action or proceeding where the adverse party sues or defends as executor, administrator or legal representative of any deceased person, or as deriving right or title by, through or from any deceased person, or as the guardian or limited guardian of the estate or person of any incompetent or disabled person, or of any minor under the age of fourteen years, then a party in interest or to the record, shall not be admitted to testify in his or her own behalf as to any transaction had by him or her with, or any statement made to him or her, or in his or her presence, by any such deceased, incompetent or disabled person, or by any such minor under the age of fourteen years: Provided further, That this exclusion shall not apply to parties of record who sue or defend in a representative or fiduciary capacity, and have no other or further interest in the action."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“prevent invasion of a deceased person's estate, or of the interest of one claiming through a decedent, because the lips of the dead are sealed and cannot rebut testimony unfavorable to their cause.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Earnheart v. Carlson
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.