109 Wash. 2d 747 - Willis v. Champlain Cable Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently January 2014
5 federal appellate · 14 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 Murphy v. American Home Products Corp. · Fortune v. National Cash Register Co. · 102 Wash. 2d 219 - Thompson v. St. Regis Paper Company · Parnar v. Americana Hotels, Inc. · 147 Ohio St. 468 - Ullmann v. May
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the absence of unconscionability or illegality, the law requires enforcement of a contract as written. The bargain as struck should be enforced. Only by doing so can we be certain that the balance of advantages and disadvantages struck by each party in the bargain they reached is implemented. Not to implement this balance would deprive the parties of their bargain and impair their freedom to contract as they wish.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Revocation in Bad Faith of Offer of Compensation,”
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.