30 Wash. 2d 622 - Willett v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently July 2008 · most notably Lembke Construction Co. v. JD Coggins Company (1963), Osborn v. Boeing Airplane Co. (1962)
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 19 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 Lytle, Campbell & Co. v. Somers, Fitler & Todd Co. · Powell v. Nolan · Armour & Co. v. Western Construction Co. · Tsutakawa v. Kumamoto · Brace & Hergert Mill Co. v. Burbank
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The fact that a contractor is required to pay these payroll taxes is so generally known that the owners must have contemplated that they would be included in ‘the actual cost of labor’. The very size of the taxes argues against its being the intention of any contractor operating on a basis of cost plus ten or fifteen per cent to pay out so large a portion of his compensation in taxes of this character. While there is a division of authority on this proposition, we cannot believe that any owner is so naive as to expect, or any contractor so generous as to intend, that the 6.3% of the labor costs involved in so-called payroll taxes would be paid out of the percentage from which the contractor’s compensation must come.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The court may allow to the prevailing party in the action, whether plaintiff or defendant, as part of the costs of the action, the moneys paid for filing or recording the claim, and a reasonable attorney's fee in the superior court, court of appeals, and supreme court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to recover upon the claim filed by him only such amount as may be due him according to the terms of his contract, after deducting all claims of other parties for labor performed, . . . materials furnished, and equipment supplied; . . .”
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.