52 Wash. App. 576 - Kent v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 2005
16 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 93 Wash. 2d 777 - First Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Ekanger · 99 Wash. 2d 905 - Matter of Marriage of Pratt · 37 Wash. App. 424 - Painter v. Olney · 24 Wash. 2d 376 - Peterson v. Betts · 30 Wash. 2d 24 - Neel v. Henne
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When the defendant cannot be found within the state, and upon the filing of an affidavit of the plaintiff, his agent, or attorney, with the clerk of the court, stating that he believes that the defendant is not a resident of the state, or cannot be found therein . . . the service may be made by publication of the summons ... in any of the following cases: (2) When the defendant, being a resident of this state, has departed therefrom with intent to defraud his creditors, or to avoid the service of a summons, or keeps himself concealed therein with like intent; (4) When the action is for divorce in the cases prescribed by law.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[b]ecause [RCW 4.28.100] requires strict compliance, an 'affidavit that omits the essential statutory elements is as good as no affidavit at all.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]n affidavit is ... a solemn, formal asseveration, under oath, upon which others might rely”
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.