37 Wash. 2d 380 - Berol v. Berol’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably 80 Wash. 2d 293 - Friedlander v. Friedlander (1972), 88 Wash. 2d 649 - In Re the Marriage of Hadley (1977)
33 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.
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not met by the mere self-serving declaration of the spouse claiming the property in question that he acquired it from separate funds and a showing that separate funds were available for that purpose.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“reduce the rate or eliminate interest entirely on deferred payments which are part of the adjudication of property rights.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The term “abuse of judicial discretion” does not mean simply the decision of a case by whim, caprice, arbitrary conduct, through ulterior motive, or in willful disregard of a-litigant’s rights, but contemplates as well a discretion exercised upon grounds, or to an extent, clearly untenable or manifestly unreasonable.”
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.