23 Wash. App. 569 - Ritchie v. Markley’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently November 2015
18 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 87 Wash. 2d 796 - Hsu Ying Li v. Tang · 57 Wash. 2d 106 - City of Bellingham v. Schampera · 69 Wash. 2d 289 - Cecil v. Dominy · 90 Wash. 2d 722 - City of Spokane v. J-R Distributors, Inc. · 91 Wash. 2d 721 - Weyerhaeuser Co. v. King County
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If injunctive relief is the sole purpose of the suit, and a temporary injunction has issued upon notice and hearing pending trial on the merits, counsel fees are recoverable as damages resulting from the temporary injunction if the injunction be dissolved at trial. But, where injunctive relief is not the sole purpose of the suit and only incidental or ancillary thereto, counsel fees as damages are recoverable only for services reasonably performed in attempting to quash the temporary injunction and not for professional services rendered in the trial on the merits.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The point at which the wrongfully issued court order is dissolved is the point at which attorney's fees cease to be recoverable—whether the court order be a preliminary injunction dissolved by trial on the merits, see Talbot v. Gray, 11 Wn. App. 807, 812 , 525 P.2d 801 (1974); Kelly v. Schorzman, 3 Wn. App. 908, 914 , 478 P.2d 769 (1970), or a temporary restraining order dissolved by a defendant's motion and hearing, see Berne v. Maxham, 82 Wash. 235 , 144 P. 23 (1914), or a temporary restraining order dissolved by stipulation of the parties . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[i]ts purpose is to deter plaintiffs from seeking unnecessary preliminary injunctions or restraining orders pending trial, and accordingly it authorizes recovery only of those fees which a defendant incurs in dissolving a wrongfully issued preliminary injunction or restraining order.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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