41 Wash. App. 177 - Kennedy v. Rode’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 2017
8 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 98 Wash. 2d 434 - Wilson v. Steinbach · 65 Wash. 2d 157 - Calbom v. Knudtzon · 80 Wash. 2d 77 - Scymanski v. Dufault · 67 Wash. 2d 630 - Sherwood & Roberts—Yakima, Inc. v. Leach · 52 Wash. 2d 176 - Fleetham v. Schneekloth
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Kennedy's commission agreement violate[d] public policy, and any claim arising out of it [was] ... unenforceable.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]t shall be unlawful for any licensed broker to pay any part of his commission or other compensation to any person who is not a licensed real estate broker....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a contract that is contrary to the terms and policy of an express legislative enactment is illegal and unenforceable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davidson v. Hensen
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.