45 Wash. App. 284 - Newcomer v. Masini’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently December 2021 · most notably Polec v. Northwest Airlines, Inc. (1996), 76 Wash. App. 527 - Truck Insurance Exchange v. Century Indemnity Co. (1995)
3 federal appellate · 32 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 Fitzpatrick v. Bitzer · 94 Wash. 2d 359 - Brown v. Safeway Stores, Inc. · 101 Wash. 2d 307 - Miotke v. City of Spokane · New England Fish Company Nefco Rubenstein Nefco v. Ball Bros Inc · 84 Wash. 2d 518 - Jones v. Strom Construction Co.
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Subrogation exists when a party, not a volunteer, pays another’s obligation for which the subrogee has no primary liability in order to protect such subrogee’s own rights and interests.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“One is a 'volunteer'... if, in making payment, he has no right or interest of his own to protect and acts without obhgation, moral or legal. . ..”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“paid the debt . . . the opportunity to reclaim those moneys paid from the party who unjustly benefited from the payment”
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.