52 Wash. 2d 456 - Decker v. Decker’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably Harris v. Harris (1979), 118 Wash. 2d 585 - State v. Pike (1992)
3 federal appellate · 43 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 Home Building & Loan Ass'n v. Blaisdell · Ruge v. Ruge · In re Cave · Haakenson v. Coldiron · State Ex Rel. Ridenour v. Superior Court for King County
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a trial court does not accept a settlement agreement of the parties simply because of their contractual rights, but because its provisions seem just and equitable and in furtherance of sound public policy, all factors being considered.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) he can show that he does not have the means to comply with the order, or (2) he can show that the particular provision sought to be enforced has no reasonable relation to his duty to support his wife and/or children.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“relates to run-of-the-mill debtor-creditor relationships arising . . . principally, out of matters basically contractual in nature.”
2 later decisions 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.