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1968

Citation profile

111
cited by 111 later decisions
11
states following
February 2025
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 107 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 111 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably 100 Wash. 2d 421 - Petersen v. State (1983), Hearn v. Rhay (1975)

2 federal appellate · 107 state decisions — followed in 11 states

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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 Robertson v. Commonwealth · 42 Wash. 2d 799 - State v. Emmanuel · 64 Wash. 2d 828 - State Ex Rel. Sowers v. Olwell · Appeal of United States Securities and Exchange Commission · People ex rel. Attorney General v. Beattie

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 111 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[T]he power to decide includes the power to decide wrong, and an erroneous decision is as binding as one that is correct until set aside or corrected in a manner provided by law.”
    12 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 168 Wash. App. 109 - Ruff v. Knickerbocker · 81 Wash. 2d 1 - Deskins v. Waldt
  2. “lacks jurisdiction of the parties or of the subject matter, or ... lacks the inherent power to make or enter the particular order involved.”
    6 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 98 Wash. 2d 731 - State v. Turner · State v. Zavala-Reynoso
  3. “An attorney or counselor shall not, without the consent of his client, be examined as to any communication made by the client to him, or his advice given thereon in the course of professional employment.”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 102 Wash. 2d 527 - Seventh Elect Church v. Rogers · 104 Wash. 2d 392 - Heidebrink v. Moriwaki

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.