94 Wash. 2d 99 - Wyman v. Wallace’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently September 2023 · most notably Strock v. Pressnell (1988), 107 Wash. 2d 72 - Tyson v. Tyson (1986)
62 state decisions — followed in 17 states
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 Roe v. Wade · Trammel v. United States · Planned Parenthood of Central Missouri v. Danforth · Hawkins v. United States · 81 Wash. 2d 183 - Freehe v. Freehe
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) The underlying assumption of preserving marital harmony is erroneous; (2) The judicial process is not sufficiently capable of policing the often vicious out-of-court settlements; (3) The opportunity for blackmail is great since the mere bringing of an action could ruin a defendant’s reputation; (4) There are no helpful standards for assessing damages; and (5) The successful plaintiff succeeds in compelling what appears to be a forced sale of the spouse’s affections.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“ social, economic, and scientific facts that”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A viable marriage is not one where the `mental attitude' of one spouse towards the other is susceptible to interference by an outsider.”
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.