103 Wash. 2d 52 - Short v. Demopolis’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 district · 108 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 126 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably 105 Wash. 2d 778 - Hangman Ridge Training Stables, Inc. v. Safeco Title Insurance (1986), Jackson v. R. G. Whipple, Inc. (1993)
2 district · 108 state decisions — followed in 12 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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1 (§ 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act)
Relies on Bates v. State Bar of Arizona · Goldfarb v. Virginia State Bar · National Society of Professional Engineers v. United States · Atlantic Cleaners & Dyers, Inc. v. United States · Arizona v. Maricopa County Medical Society
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 126 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“how the price of legal services is determined, billed, and collected and the way a law firm obtains, retains, and dismisses clients.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`The CPA, on its face, shows a carefully drafted attempt to bring within its reaches every person who conducts unfair or deceptive acts or practices in any trade or commerce.'”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“complement the body of federal law governing restraints of trade, unfair competition and unfair, deceptive and fraudulent acts and practices in order to protect the public and foster fair and honest competition.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.