33 Wash. App. 629 - Burley v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently April 2015 · most notably 104 Wash. 2d 142 - State v. Santos (1985), Department of Revenue v. Jarvenpaa (1989)
27 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 80 Wash. 2d 547 - Sorenson v. City of Bellingham · American Cyanamid Co. v. McGhee · 87 Wash. 2d 145 - Haddenham v. State · 85 Wash. 2d 176 - Hartman v. Washington State Game Commission · 92 Wash. 2d 930 - State v. Douty
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(4) Effect. Unless otherwise stated in the order of dismissal, the dismissal is without prejudice, except that an order of dismissal operates as an adjudication upon the merits when obtained by a plaintiff who has once dismissed an action based on or including the same claim in any court of the United States or of any state.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The child shall be made a party to the action. If he is a minor he shall be represented by his general guardian or a guardian ad litem appointed by the court. The child’s mother or father may not represent the child as guardian or otherwise. The court may appoint the [appropriate state agency] as guardian ad litem for the child. The natural mother, each man presumed to be the father under Section 4, and each man alleged to be the natural father, shall be made parties or, if not subject to the jurisdiction of the court, shall be given notice of the action in a manner prescribed by the court and an opportunity to be heard. The court may align the parties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“" (1) The action is brought by the attorney general on behalf of the department of social and health services, the child, or the natural mother; or " (2) The action is brought by any prosecuting attorney on behalf of the state, the child, or the natural mother when referral has been made to the prosecuting attorney by the department of social and health services requesting such action. "The court, on its own motion or on motion of a party, may appoint a guardian ad litem when necessary." RCW 74.20.310.”
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.