Litowitz v. Litowitz’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2020
14 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 115 Wash. 2d 657 - Berg v. Hudesman · Kass v. Kass · 119 Wash. 2d 724 - McDonald v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. · 128 Wash. 2d 656 - Tanner Electric Cooperative v. Puget Sound Power & Light · 119 Wash. 2d 151 - Barnett v. Hicks
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`the contract as a whole, the subject matter and objective of the contract, all the circumstances surrounding the making of the contract, the subsequent acts and conduct of the parties to the contract, and the reasonableness of respective interpretations advocated by the parties.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lathrop · State v. Oliva“'binding upon [them] until such time as it [was] changed, in writing, by [their] joint direction.' " Id. at 264 . ¶ 116 The trial court awarded the pre-embryos to the husband based on the " 'best interest of the child.' " Id. The Court of Appeals affirmed, finding that the contracts signed by the couple "did not require [the husband] to continue with their family plan to have another child and that [the husband's] right not to procreate compelled the court to award the preembryos to him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the relative interests of the parties in using or not using the preembryos must be weighed.” Id. at 604 . The court awarded the preembryos to the husband, concluding his interest in not becoming a parent outweighed his former wife’s interest in donating the preembryos to another couple for implantation. Id. The court noted the issue might be closer if the wife had wanted to use the preembiyos herself; but in view of the fact she had”
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.