114 Wash. 2d 753 - Leischner v. Alldridge’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently October 2018
13 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
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 6321 (Federal Tax Lien Act of 1966) · 26 U.S.C. § 6322 · 26 U.S.C. § 6323 · 26 U.S.C. § 6502
Relies on United States v. City of New Britain · Fleischmann Distilling Corp. v. Maier Brewing Co. · United States v. Pioneer American Insurance · United States v. R. F. Ball Construction Co. · United States v. Equitable Life Assurance Soc. of United States
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the merits of the litigation fall within a statutory scheme which prohibits the award of attorney fees, or allows such an award under narrow circumstances, a party cannot enlarge those circumstances by reference to the common fund doctrine or other equitable powers of the trial court.”
2 later decisions 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.