30 Wash. App. 908 - Valley v. Selfridge’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently March 2009
20 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 66 Wash. 2d 780 - Davidson v. Davidson · 50 Wash. 2d 577 - Koon v. Koon · 73 Wash. 2d 849 - Bennett Veneer Factors, Inc. v. Brewer · Commonwealth v. Mexal · 23 Wash. 2d 382 - Herzog v. Herzog
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"This statute, we think, is not a mere statute of limitation affecting a remedy Only. It is more than that. It not only makes a judgment cease to be a 'charge against the person or estate of the judgment debtor' after six years from the rendering of the judgment, but also in terms expressly takes away all right of renewal of or action upon the judgment looking to the continuation of its duration or that of the demand on which it rests, for a longer period than six years from the date of its rendition."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Read together, these sections indicate that no action whatsoever may be taken to enforce child support arrearages after 6 years from the date they became due, even though they have been reduced to a judgment within the 6-year period. The cases support this conclusion. Valley v. Selfridge, supra.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re MacDonald
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.