59 Wash. App. 721 - McGovern v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
2 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently February 2013
2 district · 15 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 · 109 Wash. 2d 282 - Chelan County Deputy Sheriffs' Ass'n v. County of Chelan · 107 Wash. 2d 427 - Green River Community College District No. 10 v. Higher Education Personnel Board · 115 Wash. 2d 498 - Fox v. Sunmaster Products, Inc. · 53 Wash. App. 463 - Pacesetter Real Estate, Inc. v. Fasules
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Piersons may not plead the defense of usury nor maintain any action thereon or therefor if the transaction was primarily for agricultural, commercial, investment, or business purposes: PROVIDED, HOWEVER, That this section shall not apply to a consumer transaction of any amount. Consumer transactions, as used in this section, shall mean transactions primarily for personal, family, or household purposes.”
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.