29 Wash. App. 532 - Rowe v. Floyd’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently November 2008
2 federal appellate · 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 Delta Air Lines, Inc. v. August · Samuel v. University of Pittsburgh · 81 Wash. 2d 863 - Anderson v. Gold Seal Vineyards, Inc. · Adm Corporation, Appellee-Cross v. Speedmaster Packaging Corporation, Appellant-Cross Dennison Manufacturing Company v. Armando Mota and Frederick C. Osborne, Appellees-Cross · 56 Wash. 2d 465 - Ennis v. Ring
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In any action on a contract or lease ... where such contract or lease specifically provides that attorney's fees and costs, which are incurred to enforce the provisions of such contract or lease, shall be awarded to one of the parties, the prevailing party, whether he is the party specified in the contract or lease or not, shall be entitled to reasonable attorney's fees in addition to costs and necessary disbursements. ... As used in this section "prevailing party" means the party in whose favor final judgment is rendered.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“both parties were favored by the order appealed from”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the party in whose favor final judgment was rendered.”
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.