82 Wash. 2d 771 - Seamans v. Walgren’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably 112 Wash. 2d 216 - Young v. Key Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (1989), 90 Wash. 2d 476 - Seattle School District No. 1 v. State (1978)
3 federal appellate · 33 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 Amy v. City of Watertown · Braun v. Sauerwein · 66 Cal. 2d 836 - Thurmond v. Superior Court · 75 Wash. 2d 808 - Summerrise v. Stephens · Granai v. Witters, Longmoore, Akley & Brown
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a person is prevented from exercising his legal remedy by some positive rule of law, the time during which he is prevented from bringing suit is not to be counted against him in determining whether the statute of limitations has barred his right even though the statute makes no specific exception in his favor in such cases.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]hen the commencement of an action is stayed by ... a statutory prohibition, the time of the ... prohibition shall not be a part of the time limited for the commencement of the action.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“For the purpose of tolling any statute of limitations an action shall be deemed commenced when the complaint is filed or summons is served whichever occurs first. If service has not been had on the defendant prior to the filing of the complaint, the plaintiff shall cause one or more of the defendants to be served personally, or commence service by publication within ninety days from the date of filing the complaint. ... If following . . . filing, service is not so made, the action shall be deemed to not have been commenced for purposes of tolling the statute of limitations.”
2 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.