State v. Fitzpatrick

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• unpublished Court of Appeals decisions complicate legal research, create unfair advantages for some lawyers, do not become a part of the common law and therefore will not be considered as authority
• unpublished opinions of Washington Court of Appeals have no precedential value
• \[U]npublished opinions... do not become a part of the common law of the state of Washington. If the trial courts were to consider them it ... would permit any group of lawyers to collect such opinions and create an unfair advantage by citing cases not available to their opponents.\
• “[U]npublished opinions ... do not become a part of the common law of the state of Washington. If the trial courts were to consider them it. .. would permit any group of lawyers to collect such opinions and create an unfair advantage by citing cases not available to their opponents.”

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Cited by

32 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Boeing Co. v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co.
  Washington Supreme Court· 1990-01-04· cited 266×
• State v. Creekmore
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1990-01-16· cited 69×
• State v. Harris
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1975-11-05· cited 55×
• State v. Birdwell
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1972-01-03· cited 55×
• Dept. of Legal Affairs v. Dist. Ct. of Appeal
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1983-07-07· cited 52×
• State v. Nysta
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2012-05-07· cited 52×
• Dorador v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1974-03-25· cited 34×
• Island County v. MacKie
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1984-01-09· cited 30×
• Dwyer v. J.I. Kislak Mortgage Corp.
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2000-11-27· cited 30×
• Dwyer v. JI Kislak Mortg. Corp.
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2000-11-27· cited 28×
• Segarra v. Banco Central Y Economias (In Re Segarra)
  D. Puerto Rico· 1981-10-06· cited 25×
• Warner v. Design & Build Homes, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2005-05-10· cited 24×
• State v. Motter
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2007-07-24· cited 23×
• Cultee v. City of Tacoma
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1999-05-07· cited 18×
• State v. Robbins
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1976-03-15· cited 17×
• Farina v. Department of Health
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1999-03-02· cited 15×
• State v. Ross
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1978-06-15· cited 14×
• Johnson v. Allstate Ins. Co.
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2005-03-22· cited 14×
• Johnson v. Allstate Insurance
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2005-03-22· cited 14×
• State v. Ritts
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1999-03-23· cited 12×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Davis
  Washington Supreme Court· 1968-03-06· cited 162×
• State v. Zornes
  Washington Supreme Court· 1970-05-14· cited 154×
• State v. Thomas
  Washington Supreme Court· 1961-09-14· cited 22×
• People v. Gordon
  California Court of Appeal· 1970-08-11· cited 11×
• State v. Lewis
  Washington Supreme Court· 1955-04-08· cited 6×
• State v. Larsen
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1971-03-01· cited 5×