78 Wash. 2d 834 - Vedder v. Spellman’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably 156 Ill. 2d 112 - Kedzie and 103rd Currency Exchange, Inc. v. Hodge (1993), 128 Wash. 2d 656 - Tanner Electric Cooperative v. Puget Sound Power & Light (1996)
28 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 Barrows v. Jackson · Douglass v. County of Pike · Faitoute Iron & Steel Co. v. City of Asbury Park · McCoy v. Union Elevated Railroad · J. W. Perry Co. v. City of Norfolk
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“action in any court of this state for the collection of compensation for the performance of any work or for breach of any contract”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is true that the act does not give the innocent party a right to reimbursement if he has paid the contractor. Thus, a contractor who has been paid voluntarily is apparently allowed to retain the benefits of his unlawful act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he statute does not make building contracts illegal, unlawful or immoral; it merely makes them unilaterally unenforceable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davidson v. Hensen
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.