72 Wash. 2d 662 - Dailey v. Testone’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently January 2009
22 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 64 Wash. 2d 252 - Kimball v. Public Utility District No. 1 · In the Matter of the Estate of Rorem · 37 Wash. 2d 220 - Losli v. Foster · Callahan v. Jones · 17 Wash. 2d 278 - Yount v. Zarbell
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the time expended, the difficulty of the questions involved, the skill required, customary charges of other attorneys, the amount involved, the benefit resulting to the client, the contingency or certainty in collecting the fee and the character of the employment.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“`[w]hen an attorney is guilty of fraudulent acts or gross misconduct in violation of a statute or against public policy, the client may have a complete defense to the attorney's action for fees.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The burden is on the plaintiff ... to prove by a preponderance of the evidence both the services rendered and the reasonable value thereof. An action to recover the reasonable value of the services is predicated upon quantum meruit. Quantum meruit literally means "as much as he deserved."”
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.