Peterson v. Ek’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably Ware v. Ware (2007), GILBERT M. v. State (2006)
55 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 Flast v. Cohen · United States v. Grinnell Corp. · 115 Wash. 2d 657 - Berg v. Hudesman · Moore v. State · Breck v. Ulmer
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Elven when a pro se litigant is involved, an argument is considered waived when the party 'cites no authority and fails to provide a legal theory' for his or her argument.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[It is the province of the trial court to judge witnesses' credibility and weigh conflicting evidence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“'In order to prove a claim of judicial bias,' a party must show that the judge 'formed an opinion of him from extrajudicial sources.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Downs v. Downs · Berry v. Berry
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.