Morgan v. Kingen’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Copeland v. Marshall · 100 Wash. 2d 581 - Bowers v. Transamerica Title Insurance · Schilling v. Radio Holdings, Inc. · Owen v. Burlington Northern and Santa Fe RR Co. · 37 Cal. App. 2d 269 - Davis v. Morris
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any employer and any officer, vice principal or agent of any employer who shall violate any of the provisions of subdivisions (1) and (2) of RCW 49.52.050 shall be liable in a civil action by the aggrieved employee or his assignee to judgment for twice the amount of the wages unlawfully rebated or withheld by way of exemplary damages, together with costs of suit and a reasonable sum for attorney's fees....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[W]illfulness is found where `the employer's refusal to pay [is] volitional.... Willful `means merely that the person knows what he is doing, intends to do what he is doing, and is a free agent.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“pay[s] any employee a lower wage than the wage such employer is obligated to pay such employee”
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.