57 Wash. App. 802 - Su Thao v. Control Data Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently October 2012 · most notably 70 Wash. App. 360 - G.W. Construction Corp. v. Professional Service Industries, Inc. (1993), 230 Wis. 2d 355 - Brown v. State (1999)
29 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 26 Wash. App. 430 - Streater v. White · 86 Wash. 2d 215 - Gazija v. Nicholas Jerns Co. · McClure v. Johnson · 26 Wash. 2d 559 - Yeager v. Dunnavan · Compton v. Evans
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'The lottery] is designed to induce many contracts. The entire scheme is presented to the public as a general offer. The scheme prescribes the conditions of acceptance. These conditions require the acceptors to pay something or do something, or both.'”
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.