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51 Wash. App. 731 - Crouch v. Friedman’s Empirical Analysis

1988

Citation profile

20
cited by 20 later decisions
2
states following
June 2006
most recently cited

20 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 100 Wash. 2d 26 - Smith v. Shannon · 105 Wash. 2d 878 - Del Guzzi Constr. Co. v. Global Northwest Ltd., Inc. · 87 Wash. 2d 400 - Peters v. Simmons · 8 Wash. App. 36 - Thayer v. Edmonds · 12 Wash. App. 952 - Columbia Valley Credit Exchange, Inc. v. Lampson

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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Although a court has the inherent power to waive the rules for service of process, Ashley v. Superior Court, 83 Wash.2d 630, 636-37 , 521 P.2d 711 (1974), in the present case, the trial court interpreted CR 4(c) in accordance with its plain meaning in requiring that service be performed by a nonparty. No injustice has occurred which would warrant disturbing the trial court's decision.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “the pleadings, depositions, answers to interrogatories, and admissions on file, together with the affidavits, if any, show that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that the moving party is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “. . . the statute of limitations for legal malpractice should not start to run until the client discovers, or in the exercise of reasonable diligence should have discovered the facts which give rise to his or her cause of action.”
    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.