85 Wash. 2d 290 - Stephens v. Stephens’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 2004
13 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 Vance v. Vance · Shapiro v. Shapiro · 81 Wash. 2d 183 - Freehe v. Freehe · United States v. One 1961 Red Chevrolet Impala Sedan, Serial No. 11837A177369 · 5 Cal. 3d 62 - Estate of Horman
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the later act covers the entire subject matter of the earlier legislation, is complete in itself, and is evidently intended to supersede prior legislation on the subject; or (2) the two acts are so clearly inconsistent with, and repugnant to, each other that they cannot be reconciled and both given effect by a fair and reasonable construction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"If a person entitled to bring an action mentioned in this chapter ... be at the time the cause of action accrued . . . under the age of eighteen . . . the time of such disability shall not be a part of the time limited for the commencement of action."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“If a person is absent from and resides out of the State, after a cause of action has accrued against him, the time of his absence from the State shall not be taken as a part of the time limited for the commencement of the action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Willey v. Brown
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.