Patterson v. Beall’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Tracker Marine, L.P. v. Ogle (2003), Myers v. Lashley (2002)
49 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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 45 (§ 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914)
Relies on 105 Wash. 2d 778 - Hangman Ridge Training Stables, Inc. v. Safeco Title Insurance · Manley v. Brown · Hall v. Walter · Nelson v. Lusterstone Surfacing Co. · TXO Production Corp. v. Oklahoma Corp. Commission
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the mention of one thing in a statute impliedly excludes another thing”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“Because OCPA is remedial in nature it is to be liberally construed to effectuate its underlying purpose.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]n the 1960's, individual states began to enact consumer protection laws designed to parallel and supplement Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act, 15 U.S.C. § 45 (a)(1), which Congress adopted to protect citizens against unfair trade practices.”
3 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.