7 Wash. App. 647 - Riser v. Riser’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently November 2013
20 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 48 Wash. 2d 373 - Ditmar v. Ditmar · 2 Wash. App. 446 - Callan v. Callan · 23 Wash. 2d 382 - Herzog v. Herzog · 77 Wash. 2d 6 - Sutherland v. Sutherland · 71 Wash. 2d 66 - Dawson v. Dawson
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A father may not be required to take out or maintain life insurance for the benefit of his children in addition to support and maintenance... . This rule does not mean that the support and maintenance obligation may not be secured by a life insurance policy on the life of the father... .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The husband shall be awarded those policies presently insuring his life and agrees to maintain the same in full force and effect with the minor children of the parties irrevocable beneficiaries thereon until such time as said children shall have attained the age of majority or become otherwise emancipated from the custody of the parties hereto. Said life insurance policies are more specifically described as follows: Prudential Insurance Company, endowment at age 65, face $2,000.00; Government Employees Group Life (term) face $6,000.00.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““If, therefore, the insurance provision is interpreted to mean that upon the son attaining his majority or earlier emancipation the son’s otherwise existing interest in the insurance policies reverts to the father as owner of the policies, the father’s intention to retain his property interest in the policies best carries out that intention.” (Riser, 7 Wash. App. at 651 , 501 P.2d at 1072 .)”
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.