22 Wash. App. 652 - Seals v. Seals’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently March 2022
24 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 90 Wash. 2d 384 - Holland v. Boeing Company · 80 Wash. 2d 293 - Friedlander v. Friedlander · 87 Wash. 2d 796 - Hsu Ying Li v. Tang · 88 Wash. 2d 649 - In Re the Marriage of Hadley · 90 Wash. 2d 201 - Yeats v. Estate of Yeats
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"(b) Mistakes; Inadvertence; Excusable Neglect; Newly Discovered Evidence; Fraud; etc. On motion and upon such terms as are just, the court may relieve a party or his legal representative from a final judgment, order, or proceeding for the following reasons: "(4) Fraud (whether heretofore denominated intrinsic or extrinsic), misrepresentation, or other misconduct of an adverse party; "The motion shall be made within a reasonable time and for reasons (1), (2) or (3) not more than 1 year after the judgment,. . . "(e) Procedure on Vacation of Judgment. " (1) Motion. Application shall be made by motion filed in the cause stating the grounds upon which relief is asked, and supported by the affidavit of the applicant or his attorney setting forth a concise statement of the facts or errors upon which the motion is based, and if the moving party he a defendant, the facts constituting a defense to the action or proceeding. "(2) Notice. Upon the filing of the motion and affidavit, the court shall enter an order fixing the time and place of the hearing thereof and directing all parties to the action or proceeding who may be affected thereby to appear and show cause why the relief asked for should not be granted. ”(3) Service. The motion, affidavit, and the order to show cause shall be served upon all parties affected in the same manner as in the case of summons in a civil action at such time before the date fixed for the hearing as the order shall provide; but in case such service canno”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Where a party ... in clear and unambiguous terms ... asserts the nonexistence of a fact, of which that party has or should have knowledge, the requesting party may rely on such statements. The exercise of reasonable diligence does not require a party to look behind the answers.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Deutscher v. Gabel“[p]arties prior to and during marriage have a fiduciary duty to one another in agreements which have been reached between them. A fiduciary duty does not cease upon contemplation of the dissolution of a marriage.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Angelo v. Angelo
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.