7 Wash. App. 230 - Nicholson v. Ballard’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 1992
8 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 3 Wash. 2d 702 - State Ex Rel. Lyle v. Superior Court · 6 Wash. 2d 146 - State Ex Rel. Goodnow v. O'Phelan · 68 Wash. 2d 364 - Day v. State · 57 Wash. 2d 583 - Franks v. Douglas
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(2) Dismissal on Clerk's Motion. (A) Notice. In all civil cases wherein there has been no action of record during the 12 months just past, the clerk of the superior court shall mail notice to the attorneys of record that such case will be dismissed by the court for want of prosecution unless within 30 days following said mailing, action of record is made or an application in writing is made to the court and good cause shown why it should be continued as a pending case. If such application is not made or good cause is not shown, the court shall dismiss each such case without prejudice. The cost of filing such order of dismissal with the clerk shall not be assessed against either party. (C) Applicable date. This dismissal procedure is mandatory as to all cases filed after January 1, 1959, and permissive as to all cases filed before that date. . . .”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“completely nullify the explicit, mandatory language of CR 41.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"On motion and upon such terms as are just, the court may reheve a party or his legal representative from a final judgment, order, or proceeding for the following reasons: "(1) Mistakes, inadvertence, surprise, excusable neglect or irregularity in obtaining a judgment or order; ". . . or "(11) Any other reason justifying relief from the operation of the judgment."”
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.