62 Wash. 2d 561 - Ferree v. Doric Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
95 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 97 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably State v. Michielli (1997), 70 Wash. 2d 331 - In RE DILLENBURG v. Maxwell (1966)
95 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 Irons Investment Co. v. Richardson · Swanson v. Hood · Myers v. Arthur · Salisbury v. Alskog · Stanton v. Zercher
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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a trial judge's oral decision is no more than a verbal expression of his informal opinion at that time. It is necessarily subject to further study and consideration, and may be altered, modified, or completely abandoned. It has no final or binding effect, unless formally incorporated into the findings, conclusions, and judgment.”
10 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.