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← 4 Wash. App. 952 - Rippe v. Doran

4 Wash. App. 952 - Rippe v. Doran’s Empirical Analysis

1971

Citation profile

5
cited by 5 later decisions
3
states following
April 1989
most recently cited

5 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 73 Wash. 2d 307 - Wood v. May · 66 Wash. 2d 260 - Sceva Steel Buildings, Inc. v. Weitz · 59 Wash. 2d 465 - Stablein v. Stablein

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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “We believe that the court has the power to enter a default judgment in excess of the relief sought in the complaint when the defendant has been notified of the change and has been given a fair opportunity to defend against the claim on which the judgment is based.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “The judgment here, being in excess of and containing a relief not sought in the complaint and the defendants having received no notice of such a change in theories or remedies sought, was therefore void.”
    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.