88 Wash. 2d 533 - State v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently October 2011
10 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 Elder v. . Rosenwasser · 4 Wash. App. 908 - State v. Williams · Read v. Read · 15 Wash. 2d 465 - Christiansen v. Department of Social Security · DeNisson v. National Bank of Commerce
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where a wife living with her husband whom he is obliged to support is arrested on a criminal charge or prosecuted in a civil action which may result in her incarceration, the necessity for a lawyer may be as urgent and as important as the necessity for a doctor when she is sick.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The expenses of the family and the education of the children, including stepchildren, are chargeable upon the property of both husband and wife, or either of them, and in relation thereto they may be sued jointly or separately . . ..”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“are generally considered to be at least as broad as the common-law duty to provide 'necessaries' for the family.”
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.