39 Wash. 2d 578 - Seekamp v. Small’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently February 2010
18 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 Davin v. Dowling · Bosworth v. Wolfe · Soderberg v. King County · Smith v. Gruber Lumber Co. · Johnson v. Bank of Pasco
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“was nevertheless entitled to recover what he had paid on the purchase price, as money had and received by appellant, under the principle that `no one ought unjustly to enrich himself at the expense of another'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he failure of [the plaintiff] to prove a cause of action in conversion does not of itself justify the granting of a new trial. The complaint contained allegations sufficient to state a cause of action for money had and received and the record is replete with evidence, admitted without objection, entitling [the plaintiff] to recover on that cause of action. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“there can be no conversion of money unless it was wrongfully received by the party charged with conversion, or unless such party was under obligation to return the specific money to the party claiming it;”
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.