95 Wash. 2d 726 - Van Dyke v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently July 2008 · most notably Harmon v. DEPT. OF SOCIAL & HEALTH SERV. (1998), Matter of Marriage of Schweitzer (1997)
24 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 1 Wash. 2d 698 - Fisch v. Marler · 58 Wash. 2d 510 - Taylor v. Taylor · Hector v. Hector · 56 Wash. 2d 154 - GREEN MT. SCH. DIST. v. Durkee · 85 Wash. 2d 564 - Washington Statewide Organization of Stepparents v. Smith
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“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: Provided, That with regard to stepchildren, the obligation shall cease upon the termination of the relationship of husband and wife.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“It would discourage marriage; it would encourage married persons to live separate and apart and thereby characterize their earnings as separate property; it would place unwarranted stress upon a second marriage which is already faced with the tensions and demands both emotional and financial of dealing with children of the first marriage.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the earnings of a noncustodial, nonobligated stepparent are not subject to the antenuptial obligation of child support.”
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.