127 Wash. 2d 124 - Nelson v. McGoldrick’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 79 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 110 later decisions — most recently January 2021 · most notably 228 W. Va. 646 - Brown Ex Rel. Brown v. Genesis Healthcare (2011), Zuver v. Airtouch Communications, Inc. (2004)
11 federal appellate · 79 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 Williams v. Walker-Thomas Furniture Co. · Franklin v. Shields · 122 Wash. 2d 371 - Yakima County (West Valley) Fire Protection District No. 12 v. City of Yakima · Earl M. Jorgensen Co. v. Mark Construction, Inc. · 86 Wash. 2d 256 - Schroeder v. Fageol Motors, Inc.
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 110 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`Shocking to the conscience', `monstrously harsh', and `exceedingly calloused' are terms sometimes used to define substantive unconscionability.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage“`[t]he manner in which the contract was entered,' whether each party had `a reasonable opportunity to understand the terms of the contract,' and whether `the important terms [were] hidden in a maze of fine print....'”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“these three factors [should] not be applied mechanically without regard to whether in truth a meaningful choice existed.”
5 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.