49 Wash. 2d 47 - Dahlgren v. Blomeen’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently February 2001
19 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 Hill v. West End Street Railway Co. · Edwall v. Jesseph · McCullough v. McCullough · Scurry v. City of Seattle · Neill v. Griner
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... there is no sound reason why the familiar doctrine that a party may contradict, though not impeach, his own witness, should not, if the circumstances are consistent with honesty and good faith, be applied when he is himself the witness. ... In other words, the law recognizes the fact that parties, as well as other witnesses, may honestly mistake the truth, and requires juries to find the facts by weighing all the testimony, whatever may be its source.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Whitney v. State“in none of them was a copy of the instrument produced in court”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Braut v. Tarabochia
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.