99 Wash. 2d 206 - Adkinson v. Digby, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently June 2007
3 federal appellate · 17 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 Orange Theatre Corp. v. Rayherstz Amusement Corp. · 82 Wash. 2d 771 - Seamans v. Walgren · 19 Wash. App. 1 - Matthies v. Knodel · 86 Wash. 2d 323 - Citizens Interested in the Transfusion of Yesteryear v. Board of Regents of the University of Washington
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Both must occur or the suit is a nullity.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“For the purpose of tolling any statute of limitations an action shall be deemed commenced when the complaint is filed or summons is served whichever occurs first. If service has not been had on the defendant prior to the filing of the complaint, the plaintiff shall cause one or more of the defendants to be served personally, or commence service by publication within ninety days from the date of filing the complaint. ... If following service, the complaint is not so filed, or following filing, service is not so made, the action shall be deemed to not have been commenced for purposes of tolling the statute of limitations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Derendy v. Kumbera“[f]iling the summons and complaint and service upon at least one defendant must occur within 90 days before the statute of limitations is tolled.”
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.