3 Wash. 2d 708 - Golden v. McGill’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently February 2018
3 federal appellate · 10 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 Palmquist v. Sagstad · Sprague v. Adams · Alaska Banking & Safe Deposit Co. v. Noyes · In Re Krause's Estate · Filley v. Murphy
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`Under the constitution, the superior court is a court of general jurisdiction. It has jurisdiction of equity cases, actions at law, and proceedings in probate. . . . It has also been held that a court sitting in probate may settle issues and try a case as any other civil cause. Filley v. Murphy , 30 Wn. 1 , 70 P. 107 ; Sloan v. West , 63 Wn. 623 , 116 P. 272 . The constitution does not make the superior courts probate courts. On the contrary, it makes them courts of general jurisdiction including”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The decree of distribution, which was entered after hearing, . . . constitutes a binding adjudication of the rights of appellant, who appeared generally and acquiesced in everything that was done and that could have been done. . . . That is, the decree of distribution became res adjudicata of the issues here presented, as the matter in controversy in the case at bar was or could have been adjudicated in that hearing.[ 40 ]”
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.