19 Wash. App. 334 - Hopper v. Hemphill’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently July 2016
12 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 Dodson v. Continental Can Co. · 9 Wash. 2d 197 - Washington Security Co. v. State · 16 Wash. App. 678 - National Bank of Commerce v. Preston · Hardin v. Sweeney · 15 Wash. App. 133 - Hamilton v. Pearce
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f an actual notice or demand is required for a cause of action to accrue on a demand loan obligation, then the statute of limitations does not commence running until notice is given or demand is made, or until a reasonable time has elapsed.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Here the $10,000 loan by Hopper to Hemphill on June 30, 1969, created a present debt and the 3-year statute of limitations commenced running on the date of the loan. The $1,300 payment made by Hemphill on March 31, 1972, prior to the running of the 3-year statute, tolled that statute and commenced it running anew. RCW 4.16.270; Hamilton v. Pearce, 15 Wash. App. 133, 137-38 , 547 P.2d 866 (1976).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“to make a preliminary demand prerequisite to a right of action.”
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.