80 Wash. App. 643 - Bour v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably 90 Wash. App. 488 - In Re the Marriage of Murphy (1998), 92 Wash. App. 494 - In Re the Marriage of Thurston (1998)
58 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
Applies 46 U.S.C. § 11109
Relies on 75 Wash. 2d 1 - Dike v. Dike · Wilder v. Inter-Island Steam Navigation Co. · 87 Wash. 2d 649 - In Re Adoption of Buehl · 122 Wash. 2d 829 - Bour v. Johnson · 92 Wash. 2d 236 - North Sea Products, Ltd. v. Clipper Seafoods Co.
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[s]ubject matter jurisdiction is the authority to hear and determine the class of action to which a case belongs, not the authority to grant the relief requested, or the correctness of the decision.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“On motion and upon such terms as are just, the court may relieve a party or his legal representative from a final judgment, order, or proceeding for the following reasons: . . . (11) Any other reason justifying relief from the operation of the judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[w]henever it appears by suggestion of the parties or otherwise that the court lacks jurisdiction of the subject matter, the court shall dismiss the action.”
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.