56 Wash. App. 499 - Coggle v. Snow’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
80 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Tellevik v. Real Property Known as 31641 (1992), 126 Wash. 2d 36 - Moreman v. Butcher (1995)
80 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 Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · 79 Wash. 2d 12 - State Ex Rel. Carroll v. Junker · 112 Wash. 2d 216 - Young v. Key Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · Delno v. Market St. Ry. Co. · 113 Wash. 2d 701 - McKee v. American Home Products Corp.
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When Affidavits Are Unavailable. Should it appear from the affidavits of a party opposing the motion [for summary judgment] that he cannot, for reasons stated, present by affidavit facts essential to justify his opposition, the court may refuse the application for judgment or may order a continuance to permit affidavits to be obtained or depositions to be taken or discovery to be had or may make such other order as is just.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“(1) the requesting party does not offer a good reason for the delay in obtaining the desired evidence; (2) the requesting party does not state what evidence would be established through the additional discovery; or (3) the desired evidence will not raise a genuine issue of material fact.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“untenable grounds or for untenable reasons, considering the purposes of the trial court's discretion.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.