43 Wash. 2d 629 - Shaffer v. Shaffer’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently December 2019 · most notably 80 Wash. 2d 736 - Baker v. Baker (1972), 96 Wash. 2d 183 - In Re the Marriage of Little (1981)
29 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The wisdom of the legislative requirement is well illustrated by this case. Because of the inadequacies in the decree, future litigation, including a partition action, between the parties may be necessary. They should not be left with this prospect. They have a right to have their respective interests in their property after they are divorced, definitely and finally determined in the decree which divorces them.” Shaffer v. Shaffer, supra, at 764.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In a proceeding for dissolution . . ., the court shall . . . make such disposition of the property and the liabilities of the parties, either community or separate, as shall appear just and equitable . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“all of the property of the parties which is brought to its attention in the trial of a divorce case.”
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.