Peterson v. Peterson’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently July 1982
4 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 Mayes v. Mayes · State v. Hagerman · Fidelity Union Trust Co. v. Fitzpatrick · Ryan v. Canton National Bank · 23 Wash. 2d 552 - Walker v. Sieg
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Plaintiff in this case is relying on payments to avoid the statute of limitations. The burden of proof is therefore on plaintiff because the judgment is more than 10 years old with no credit entered thereon “Plaintiff also has the burden of showing that the $100 was a payment on the judgment and not a gift; that it was intended as payment and accepted as such ...””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wardlow v. Denny
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.