73 Wash. 2d 944 - Olpinski v. Clement’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably 86 Wash. 2d 607 - Haslund v. City of Seattle (1976), Antal v. Olde Worlde Products, Inc. (1984)
33 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 65 Wash. 2d 421 - Baxter v. Greyhound Corp. · 60 Wash. 2d 32 - State v. Taylor · 45 Wash. 2d 433 - Johnson v. Howard · 52 Wash. 2d 684 - Nelson v. Martinson · 54 Wash. 2d 341 - Agranoff v. Morton
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`the favored position of the trial judge and his sound discretion should be accorded the greatest deference, particularly when it involves the assessment of occurrences during the trial which cannot be made a part of the record.'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“The trial court has the duty to see that justice prevails. He has the power in the exercise of his discretion to grant a new trial where substantial justice has not been done, but, to facilitate.- appellate review, he must- state his reasons.”
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.