77 Wash. 2d 441 - McGugart v. Brumback’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently January 2007 · most notably 68 Wash. App. 339 - Bentzen v. Demmons (1993), United States v. DiMaria (1984)
3 federal appellate · 36 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 Hickman v. Taylor · Anderson v. Benson · Duling v. Markun · Robertson v. O'Neill · Steele v. McCargo
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“are to be given a broad and liberal construction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“prevent frauds upon the estates of those who are no longer present to defend themselves.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“eliminates what would otherwise be a flagrant injustice in the statute.”
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.