80 Wash. 2d 736 - Baker v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
91 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions — most recently November 2020 · most notably 87 Wash. 2d 922 - Johnson v. Morris (1976), Paul v. Paul (1974)
91 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 48 Wash. 2d 373 - Ditmar v. Ditmar · 78 Wash. 2d 201 - Anderson v. City of Seattle · 19 Wash. 2d 802 - Lynch v. Department of Labor & Industries · 69 Wash. 2d 506 - Morris v. Morris · Springstun v. Springstun
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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Characterization of the property ... is not necessarily controlling; the ultimate question being whether the final division of the property is fair, just and equitable under all the circumstances."”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he legislature is without power to set aside, annul, or change the liability upon a judgment affecting solely the rights of private parties by the enactment of a general law.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he court shall, without regard to marital misconduct, make such disposition of the property and liabilities of the parties, either community or separate, as shall appear just and equitable after considering all relevant factors including, but not limited to: (1)[t]he nature and extent of the community property; (2)[t]he nature and extent of the separate property; (3)[t]he duration of the marriage; and (4)[t]he economic circumstances of each spouse at the time the division of property is to become effective, including the desirability of awarding the family home or the right to live [in it] ... for reasonable periods to a spouse having custody of any children.”
3 later decisions 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.