58 Wash. 2d 206 - Mitchell v. Watson’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently September 2002
11 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 Societe Internationale Pour Participations Industrielles Et Commerciales, S. A. v. Rogers · Hovey v. Elliott · Hammond Packing Company v. State of Arkansas · Windsor v. McVeigh · McVeigh v. United States
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"From a party's refusal to testify it may well be presumed that, if his testimony were given, it would sustain the cause of action or defense of his adversary, and we think that this is a presumption the law and the courts have a right to indulge. On the same principle, the refusal of a party to answer interrogatories may be treated as an implied admission of the facts in relation to which a discovery is sought. But, if there are numerous issues in a case, and a discovery is sought only as to one of these issues, the striking of the answer and the taking of judgment on all the issues, for failure to make discovery as to one, can only be justified on the theory that the judgment is given as a punishment for the failure to make discovery, and it may well be doubted whether such a proceeding can be sustained under the authorities above cited." Id. at 1121 , quoted in 361 P.2d at 747 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ ‘The contumacy of a party, disobeying an order of a court, may justify his punishment for contempt, but it does not justify the deprivation of his civil rights or the taking of his property and giving it to another.’ ” In re Estate of Bailey, 58 Wash. 2d at 695, 364 P.2d at 545 , quoting Mitchell v. Washington, 58 Wash. 2d at 214, 361 P.2d at 748 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Britt v. Britt“deny to defendant the right to defend the action as `mere punishment.'”
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.