119 Wash. 2d 129 - Biggs v. Vail’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably 121 Wash. 2d 795 - In Re the Marriage of Kovacs (1993), Amalgamated Transit v. State (2000)
64 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 Optimal Data Corp. v. United States · 116 Wash. 2d 794 - Cherry v. Municipality of Metropolitan Seattle · 26 Wash. App. 430 - Streater v. White · 117 Wash. 2d 382 - World Wide Video, Inc. v. City of Tukwila · 116 Wash. 2d 556 - Brown v. City of Yakima
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“upon written findings by the judge that the action ... was frivolous and advanced without reasonable cause....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The frivolous lawsuit statute has a very particular purpose: that purpose is to discourage frivolous lawsuits and to compensate the targets of such lawsuits for fees and expenses incurred in fighting meritless cases. The statute is not to be used in lieu of more appropriate pretrial motions, CR 11 sanctions or complaints to the bar association. The statute provides for the nonprevailing party, not that party’s attorney, to pay attorneys’ fees and costs.[ 17 ]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Havsy v. Flynn“It appears in this case that the plaintiff, an attorney, was sanctioned for what the trial court considered to be pointless contentiousness and an abusive approach to the practice of law. By reversing the sanctions in this case, we do not in any way condone Mr. Biggs' conduct. However, in order to sanction Mr. Biggs, we will not extend the reach of the statute beyond that intended by the Legislature.”
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.