23 Wash. App. 178 - Fittro v. Alcombrack’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 2004
12 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 Humphreys v. United States · 18 Wash. App. 418 - Vance v. City of Seattle · 5 Wash. App. 59 - Gould v. Bird & Sons, Inc. · 16 Wash. App. 893 - Fox v. Groff
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because the action against Alcombrack [who was timely served] was dismissed before State Farm was served, the action against Alcombrack no longer tolled the statute of limitations either as to Alcombrack or as to State Farm.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“by serving one named defendant and thereafter filing the complaint, the statute of limitations was tolled by RCW 4.16.170 as to the unserved defendant”
1 later decision 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.