95 Wash. 2d 237 - deElche v. Jacobsen’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably 102 Wash. 2d 665 - Federated American Insurance v. Strong (1984), 131 Wash. 2d 822 - Keene v. Edie (1997)
8 federal appellate · 47 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 Woods v. Lancet · Birch v. Abercrombie · 81 Wash. 2d 183 - Freehe v. Freehe · Brotton v. Langert · 41 Wash. 2d 642 - Borst v. Borst
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he legislature did not create an entity or a juristic person separate and apart from the spouses composing the marital community.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“which can properly be said to be done in the management of community business.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“When logically and equitably it was the tortfeasor alone who should bear the costs of his actions, the courts have been given only two choices either impose one-half of the liability upon the property of the nontortfeasing spouse, even though that spouse had nothing to do with the tort, or force the innocent victim to bear all damages produced by an acknowledged tortfeasor if that tortfeasor, even though solvent, had only community property. The tortfeasor could hardly lose; absent the ownership of separate property he or she could be held liable to pay either only half the judgment or nothing at all.”
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.