40 Wash. 2d 307 - Starkey v. Starkey’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently January 2006
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 Beers v. Beers · Harris v. Harris · Blethen v. Blethen · Smith v. Smith
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It will be observed that neither party is complaining of the change in visitation rights to the extent provided in the instant decree. It is therefore unnecessary to decide whether such change constitutes a modification of the divorce decree which was beyond the authority of the court in this proceeding (State ex rel. Edwards v. Superior Court, supra) or was a reasonable clarification of rights not amounting to a modification of the divorce decree. Paulson v. Paulson, 37 Wn. (2d) 555, 225 P. (2d) 206 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Defendant calls attention to Smith v. Smith, 18 Wash. 158 , 51 Pac. 355 , wherein it was held that a divorced husband who had not paid alimony as provided in the divorce decree, had no standing in a court of equity to seek modification of that decree with respect to rights of visitation. That rule no longer obtains in this state.”
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.