84 Wash. 2d 155 - Yetter v. Commeau’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently October 2015 · most notably 89 Wash. 2d 97 - State v. Wood (1977), Bushnell v. Bushnell (1984)
27 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Stanley v. Illinois · Weber v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. · Levy v. Louisiana Ex Rel. Charity Hospital · Gomez v. Perez · 13 Wash. 2d 673 - In Re the Welfare of Hudson
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(6) "Duty of support" includes any duty of support imposed or imposable by law, or by any court order, decree or judgment, whether interlocutory or final, whether incidental to a proceeding for divorce, separate maintenance or otherwise.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“provide a uniform, simplified, and convenient method whereby a dependent could obtain needed monetary support from another, obligated to provide such, ...”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Reading these provisions in a liberal light consistent with the remedial purposes of the URESA, it appears clear that the legislation undertakes to provide remedies in addition to existent remedies, and contemplates the imposition and enforcement of any duty of support, regardless of the relationship between the obligor and obligee, imposable under the law of the state where the obligor was present during the period for which support is sought.”
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.