44 Wash. 2d 261 - McDonald v. Wockner’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently September 2014
6 federal appellate · 16 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 Building Service Employees International Union, Local 262 v. Gazzam · Motor Contract Co. v. Van Der Volgen · Herman v. Golden Arrow Dairy, Inc.
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.
“"Any employer or officer, vice principal or agent of any employer, whether said employer he in private business or an elected public official, who "(1) Shall collect or receive from any employee a rebate of any part of wages theretofore paid by such employer to such employee; or " (2) Wilfully and with intent to deprive the employee of any part of his wages, shall pay any employee a lower wage than the wage such employer is obligated to pay such employee by any statute, ordinance, or contract. . . "Shall be guilty of a misdemeanor."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“(3) An action upon a contract or liability, express or implied, which is not in writing, and does not arise out of any written instrument^]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“agreement to waive rights involving a question of public policy is void”
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.