89 Wash. 2d 539 - Haller v. Wallis’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
94 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably Acheson v. White (1985), 92 Wash. 2d 576 - Griggs v. Averbeck Realty, Inc. (1979)
94 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 73 Wash. 2d 348 - White v. Holm · 85 Wash. 2d 241 - Martin v. Pickering · 16 Wash. App. 81 - ROGERS WALLA WALLA v. Ballard · Merritt v. Graves · 54 Wash. 2d 489 - Handley v. Mortland
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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the want of adherence to some prescribed rule or mode of proceeding; and it consists either in the omitting to do something that is necessary for the due and orderly conducting of a suit, or in doing it in an unreasonable time or improper manner.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage“[O]nce a party has designated an attorney to represent him in regard to a particular matter, the court and the other parties to an action are entitled to rely upon that authority until the client's decision to terminate it has been brought to their attention,. . .”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“A motion to vacate a judgment is to be considered and decided by the trial court in the exercise of its discretion, and its decision should be overturned on appeal only if it plainly appears that it has abused that discretion.”
3 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.