41 Wash. App. 846 - Mitchell v. John Doe’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently August 2019
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 28 Wash. App. 319 - In Re the Application for a Writ of Habeas Corpus of Santore · 91 Wash. 2d 62 - Washington Water Power Co. v. Washington State Human Rights Commission · 92 Wash. 2d 265 - Whitehead v. Department of Social & Health Services · 94 Wash. 2d 321 - Cooper's Mobile Homes, Inc. v. Simmons · 81 Wash. 2d 430 - In Re Estates of Donnelly
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 would be absurd to argue that anyone walking by a yard, taking a fancy to children seen playing there, has standing to petition for visitation with them.”). 13 A custodial agency is by statute clothed with authority to find a permanent adoptive home for a child committed to its care. See RCW 13.34.210 (Department given custody oí child following termination of parental rights”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“The court may order visitation rights for any person when visitation may serve the best interest of the child whether or not there has been any change of circumstances. Any person may petition the court for visitation rights at any time including, but not limited to, custody proceedings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Facts establishing standing are as essential to a successful claim for relief as is the jurisdiction of a court to grant it. Thus, we hold that the insufficiency of a factual basis to support standing may also be raised for the first time on appeal in accordance with RAP 2.5(a)(2).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Roberson v. Perez
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.