31 Wash. App. 418 - Springer v. Rosauer’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently September 2002
17 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 85 Wash. 2d 52 - Grimsby v. Samson · 88 Wash. 2d 887 - Roberts v. Atlantic Richfield Co. · 88 Wash. 2d 735 - Contreras v. Crown Zellerbach Corp. · 86 Wash. 2d 293 - Brown v. MacPherson's, Inc. · 89 Wash. 2d 959 - Corrigal v. Ball & Dodd Funeral Home, Inc.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No suit or action shall be brought for the collection of compensation as a real estate broker, associate real estate broker, or real estate salesman, without alleging and proving that the plaintiff was a duly licensed real estate broker, associate real estate broker, or real estate salesman prior to the time of offering to perform any such act or service or procuring any promise or contract for the payment of compensation for any such contemplated act or service.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“grows immediately out of, and is connected with, an illegal act, a court of justice will not lend its aid to enforce it. Where a plaintiff, to make a case, must rely upon the illegal contract itself, he cannot recover. ... A contract which is contrary to the terms and policy of an express legislative enactment is illegal and unenforcible [sic].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]he primary purpose underlying the Act [is] to promote a minimum standard of conduct for those engaged in the business of real estate who are often conducting their business in the capacity of a fiduciary. In short, the purpose of the ... Act is to protect the general public from negligent, unscrupulous, or dishonest real estate operators.”
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.