43 Wash. App. 129 - Burt v. Ross’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
2
states following
February 2012
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 84 Wash. 2d 969 - In Re Carson
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and except as provided under RCW 26.50.020, all persons shall be deemed and taken to be of full age for the specific purposes hereafter enumerated at the age of eighteen years.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he linkage of the drinking age statute to the wrongful death statute is too remote to create an exception `specifically provided by law' to the age of majority of 18.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The mother or father or both may maintain an action as plaintiff for the injury or death of a minor child, or a child on whom either, or both, are dependent for support”
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.