76 Wash. App. 403 - Dempere v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently April 2012 · most notably Burnet v. Spokane Ambulance (1997), 87 Wash. App. 579 - Schmalenberg v. Tacoma News, Inc. (1997)
44 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 Fussell v. Price · 79 Wash. 2d 12 - State Ex Rel. Carroll v. Junker · Villella v. Waikem Motors, Inc. · Harkeem v. Adams · 121 Wash. 2d 52 - Bowles v. Department of Retirement Systems
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“bad faith in the underlying tortious conduct is not a recognized equitable ground for awards of attorney fees in Washington”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Shoemake v. Ferrer
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.