39 Wash. 2d 558 - Poole v. Schrichte’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 2006
12 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 Buckley v. Buckley · Sloan v. West · 30 Tex. Civ. App. 43 - Lawson v. Lawson · Brenchley v. Brenchley · Knoll v. Knoll
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We have on but three occasions actually left the parties to a relationship known by both parties to be meretricious, in the position in which they had placed themselves. In each instance one of the parties ... was dead, which ... suggests that the difficulty of producing evidence of contrary intent is the reason [for that result].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“rights do not stem from cohabitation or the meretricious relationship, but from the fact that the proceeds from the beauty shop she operated clearly constituted a larger [portion] of the Crosley account than did Mr. Schrichte's earnings as a railroad switchman],]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“authority. . . of the court to divide the property accumulated during . . . a [meretricious] relationship is in consequence of the court's inherent equity power, and not because of the divorce statute”
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.