59 Wash. App. 177 - Mitchell v. Kitsap County’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently September 2011
15 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 89 Wash. 2d 539 - Haller v. Wallis · 104 Wash. 2d 142 - State v. Santos · 112 Wash. 2d 612 - In Re Marriage of Leslie · 50 Wash. App. 633 - In Re the Marriage of Markowski · 15 Wash. 2d 345 - National Bank of Washington v. McCrillis
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although RCW 2.08.180 does speak of cases in superior court being “tried” by a judge pro tempore, we believe that the term trial should be viewed broadly. “A trial is the judicial examination of the issues between the parties, whether they are issues of law or of fact.” CR 38. In our judgment, hearings on motions for summary judgment fall within the definition of a trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“may be tried by a judge, pro tempore, who must be a member of the bar, agreed upon in writing by the parties litigant, or their attorneys of record, approved by the court and sworn to try the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Robinson“A trial court has no discretion when faced with a void judgment, and must vacate the judgment `whenever the lack of jurisdiction comes to light.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hazel v. Van Beek
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.