Young v. Young’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently September 2020
4 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 94 Wash. 2d 119 - Davis v. Department of Labor & Industries · 17 Wash. 2d 591 - Chandler v. Washington Toll Bridge Authority · 106 Wash. 2d 826 - Fisher Properties, Inc. v. Arden-Mayfair, Inc. · Dioxin/Organochlorine Ctr. v. POLLUTION CONTROL · Martin v. Campanaro
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Unjust enrichment is the method of recovery for the value of the benefit retained absent any contractual relationship because notions of fairness and justice require it.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[1] a benefit conferred upon the defendant by the plaintiff, [2] an appreciation or knowledge by the defendant of the benefit; and [3] the acceptance or retention by the defendant of the benefit under such circumstances as to make it inequitable for the defendant to retain the benefit without the payment of its value.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) the defendant receives a benefit, (2) the received benefit is at the plaintiff's expense, and (3) the circumstances make it unjust for the defendant to retain the benefit without payment.”
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.