49 Wash. App. 564 - Broten v. May’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently April 2019
3 federal appellate · 6 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 105 Wash. 2d 778 - Hangman Ridge Training Stables, Inc. v. Safeco Title Insurance · 108 Wash. 2d 38 - Boeing Company v. Sierracin Corporation · 65 Wash. 2d 157 - Calbom v. Knudtzon · 107 Wash. 2d 735 - Nordstrom, Inc. v. Tampourlos · 106 Wash. 2d 826 - Fisher Properties, Inc. v. Arden-Mayfair, 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When the natural and proximate consequences of a wrongful act of A [Advance] involve B [Security Pacific] in litigation with others, B may as a general rule recover damages from A for reasonable expenses incurred in that litigation, including attorney's fees. Three elements are necessary to create liability: (1) a wrongful act or omission by A toward B; (2) such act or omission exposes or involves B in litigation with C [Westinghouse]; and (3) C was not connected with the initial transaction or event, viz., the wrongful act or omission of A toward B.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“all that is required is a relationship between parties contemplating a contract, with at least a reasonable expectancy of fruition,”
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.