66 Wash. App. 735 - Lockhart v. Greive’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently February 2016
20 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 118 Wash. 2d 383 - Safeco Insurance Co. of America v. Butler · 55 Wash. App. 106 - Doe v. Spokane & Inland Empire Blood Bank · 56 Wash. App. 125 - Clarke v. Equinox Holdings, Ltd. · 98 Wash. 2d 569 - Belli v. Shaw · 54 Wash. App. 461 - Moorman v. Walker
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n any civil action, the court . . . may, upon written findings . . . that the action . . . was frivolous and advanced without reasonable cause, require the nonprevailing party to pay the prevailing party the reasonable expenses, including fees of attorneys, incurred in opposing such action, counterclaim, cross-claim, third party claim, or defense. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“if three conditions are met: (1) the action is not well grounded in fact, (2) it is not warranted by existing law, and (3) the attorney signing the pleading has failed to conduct a reasonable inquiry into the factual or legal basis of the action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“it was clearly understood by all persons involved that [the client] was being represented by [newly retained counsel].”
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.