72 Wash. 2d 404 - DeRuwe v. DeRuwe’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently October 2008 · most notably 103 Wash. 2d 236 - In Re the Marriage of Hall (1984), 80 Wash. 2d 293 - Friedlander v. Friedlander (1972)
34 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 70 Wash. 2d 694 - Stokes v. McDowell · 68 Wash. 2d 573 - Stacy v. Stacy · 62 Wash. 2d 917 - Robuck v. Robuck · 64 Wash. 2d 617 - Hogberg v. Hogberg · 34 Wash. 2d 33 - Bodine v. Bodine
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is the economic condition in which the decree will leave the parties that engenders the paramount concern in providing for child support and alimony and in making a property division.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“that the husband came out of the marriage with too great a share and the wife too little.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“junior only to existing encumbrances of record”
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.