35 Wash. App. 466 - Lee v. WESTERN PROCESSING COMPANY’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently December 2018
22 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 91 Wash. 2d 230 - Seattle-First National Bank v. Shoreline Concrete Co. · 92 Wash. 2d 576 - Griggs v. Averbeck Realty, Inc. · 73 Wash. 2d 348 - White v. Holm · John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance v. Gooley · 45 Wash. 2d 209 - Williams v. Steamship Mutual Underwriting Ass'n
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The law favors determination of controversies on their merits and, consequently, default judgments are disfavored. Griggs v. Averbeck Realty, Inc., 92 Wn.2d 576, 581 , 599 P.2d 1289 (1979). A proceeding to vacate a default judgment is equitable in character, and relief is to be afforded in accordance with equitable principles. The court should exercise its authority to the end that substantial rights be preserved and justice done between the parties. White v. Holm, 73 Wn.2d 348 , 438 P.2d 581 (1968).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Western supported its motion to vacate the default judgment with affidavits of all Western's office employees, who denied they had ever been served with the summons and complaint.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Leda v. Whisnand“[d]iscrepancies in the dates on the documents would also create doubt as to whether the summons and complaint were properly served.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Leda v. Whisnand
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.