30 Wash. App. 119 - State v. Eppens’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently August 2014 · most notably 105 Wash. 2d 653 - Lillig v. Becton-Dickinson (1986), State v. Tili (2003)
58 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Benton v. Maryland · Barnes v. United States · 94 Wash. 2d 216 - State v. Green · 54 Wash. 2d 570 - Thorndike v. Hesperian Orchards, Inc.
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] trial court's oral decision may be considered, ... in interpreting findings of fact and conclusions of law, so long as there is no inconsistency.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bryant · State v. Tili“`arose out of the conduct, transaction, or occurrence set forth or attempted to be set forth in the original pleading.'”
2 later decisions 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.