77 Wash. 2d 630 - State v. Coffey’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently September 2005
12 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 Wesberry v. Sanders · 63 Wash. 2d 664 - Lenci v. City of Seattle · 62 Wash. 2d 319 - Alderwood Water District v. Pope & Talbot, Inc. · Ruge v. Ruge · Dyer v. Dyer
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[tjhese matters, from their very nature, invoke the equitable powers of the court, and the jurisdiction is a continuing one ...”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Washington's original bastardy statute was enacted as part of the Code of 1881 (Code of 1881, § 1212 to § 1221). ... In 1903, State v. Tieman, 32 Wash. 294 , 73 P. 375 (1903), this court held the act unconstitutional. A search of the compilation of laws of the state discloses that in 1905 the 1881 act was dropped from the code of laws with the notation that it had been held unconstitutional. Pierce's Code § 1839 (1905). Thereafter, the act completely disappears from the compilations of statutes. Between 1903 and 1919, there were no filiation or bastardy statutes in the state. When the legislature enacted Laws of 1919, ch. 203, p. 709, now RCW 26.24, it created an entirely new and complete filiation act. No reference was made to the 1881 act and understandably so — it had been "out of the books" for 14 years. The legislature was neither amending nor reviving an existing act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“There was a time in the history of Anglo-Saxon jurisprudence when an illegitimate child was a total outcast, without a right to support from either its mother or father. In later common law, the duty of the support of such a child was entirely upon the mother. Now, almost universally, the father is given a share of this responsibility by statute. In keeping with this enlightened change of concept as to the status and rights of an illegitimate child, we are not disposed to treat the illegitimate child so differently from the legitimate child caught in the backwash of his parents’ separation. In all sense of justice and equity, any such distinction, at least as to the right of parental support, belongs to a bygone day.”
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.