74 Wash. 2d 714 - Odom v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently February 2014
9 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 13 Wash. 2d 485 - Peasley v. Puget Sound Tug & Barge Co. · Gadbury v. Bleitz · 63 Wash. 2d 245 - Northern State Construction Co. v. Banchero · 59 Wash. 2d 545 - Christensen v. Swedish Hospital · McInnes v. Sutton
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Against the background of these circumstances and facts, defendant's belated "morning of the trial" motion for continuance and his deliberate absence from the proceedings bespeaks neither due diligence nor good faith. To have granted the untimely motion would have worked an unjustified hardship on plaintiffs and their witnesses, . . . and added unpredictable further delay to an already overly extended proceeding.”
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.