5 Wash. App. 661 - State v. Fitzpatrick’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently May 2012 · most notably 113 Wash. 2d 869 - Boeing Co. v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. (1990), 55 Wash. App. 852 - State v. Creekmore (1990)
42 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 73 Wash. 2d 271 - State v. Davis · 78 Wash. 2d 9 - State v. Zornes · 28 Wash. 2d 300 - Kay v. Occidental Life Insurance · 58 Wash. 2d 746 - State v. Thomas · 10 Cal. App. 3d 454 - People v. Gordon
Most-quoted passages
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“[U]npublished opinions... do not become a part of the common law of the state of Washington. If the trial courts were to consider them it ... would permit any group of lawyers to collect such opinions and create an unfair advantage by citing cases not available to their opponents.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.