31 Wash. App. 98 - Nuttall v. Dowell’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently December 2021 · most notably 105 Wash. 2d 778 - Hangman Ridge Training Stables, Inc. v. Safeco Title Insurance (1986), 106 Wash. 2d 826 - Fisher Properties, Inc. v. Arden-Mayfair, Inc. (1986)
52 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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 45 (§ 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914)
Relies on Lindy Bros. Builders, Inc. of Phila. v. American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp. · Estes v. Texas · 90 Wash. 2d 384 - Holland v. Boeing Company · 81 Wash. 2d 259 - State v. Reader's Digest Ass'n · Clairol, Inc. v. Director of Division of Taxation
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The director [of the Department of Licensing] may . . . [s]uspend or revoke, levy a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars for each offense, require the completion of a course in a selected area of real estate practice relevant to the section of this chapter or rule violated, or deny the license of any holder or applicant who is guilty of: (24) Failing to disclose to an owner his or her intention or true position if he or she directly or indirectly through third party, purchases for himself or herself or acquires or intends to acquire any interest in, or any option to purchase, property. (26) Any conduct in a real estate transaction which demonstrates bad faith, dishonesty, untrustworthiness or incompetency.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) [T]he defendant by unfair or deceptive acts or practices in the conduct of trade or commerce has induced the plaintiff to act or refrain from acting; (2) the plaintiff suffers damage brought about by such action or failure to act; and (3) the defendant's deceptive acts or practices have the potential for repetition.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a party has not established a causal relationship with a misrepresentation of fact where he does not convince the trier of fact that he relied upon it.”
2 later decisions 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.