84 Wash. 2d 617 - DeFunis v. Odegaard’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently December 2019 · most notably 128 Wash. 2d 40 - Lacey Nursing Center, Inc. v. Department of Revenue (1995), PICS v. Seattle School Dist. No. 1 (2003)
28 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 28 U.S.C. § 2106
Relies on Benton v. Maryland · Aetna Life Ins Co of Hartford Conn v. Haworth · Southern Pacific Terminal Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission · North Carolina v. Rice · Marco Defunis et al. v. Charles Odegaard, President of the University of Washington.
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Class actions are specialized types of suits, and as a general rule must be brought and maintained in strict conformity with the requirements of CR 23.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“essential in guiding the conduct of public officials.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“CR 23(a) provides: One or more members of a class may sue or be sued as representative parties on behalf of all only if (1) the class is so numerous that joinder of all members is impracticable, (2) there are questions of law or fact common to the class, (3) the claims or defenses of the representative parties are typical of the claims or defenses of the class, and (4) the representative parties will fairly and adequately protect the interests of the class.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.