31 Wash. App. 767 - Soper v. Clibborn’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 2010
12 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 Parker v. Califano · Parker v. Matthews · 81 Wash. 2d 863 - Anderson v. Gold Seal Vineyards, Inc. · 86 Wash. 2d 388 - Public Utility District No. 1 v. Kottsick · Adoption of v. M. C.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It shall be unlawful for the landlord to remove or exclude from the premises the tenant thereof except under a court order so authorizing. Any tenant so removed or excluded in violation of this section may recover possession of the property or terminate the rental agreement and, in either case, may recover the actual damages sustained. The prevailing party may recover the cost of suit or arbitration and reasonable attorney's fees.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“prevailing party”. The prevailing party is "that party in whose favor judgment is entered.”
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.