52 Wash. 2d 84 - Keller v. Keller’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently December 2007 · most notably 110 Wash. 2d 793 - In Re the Personal Restraint of King (1988), 86 Wash. 2d 252 - Tetro v. Tetro (1975)
37 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 Blanchard v. Golden Age Brewing Co. · State Ex Rel. Dailey v. Dailey · State v. Zioncheck · In Re Estate of Harrington · State v. Angevine
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) to punish summarily contemptuous conduct occurring in the presence of the court, (2) to enforce orders or judgments in aid of the court's jurisdiction, and (3) to punish violations of orders or judgments.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In a large measure, this court is responsible for a certain amount of confusion, because we have not always made plain and definite the distinction between RCW 9.23.010 and RCW 7.20.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“created by the constitution, . . . comes into being upon the very creation of . . . a court and remains with it as long as the court exists.”
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.