78 Wash. App. 105 - White v. Dvorak’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently September 2016
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 18 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 100 Wash. 2d 476 - Goodman v. Darden, Doman & Stafford Associates · King Features Syndicate v. Courrier · 53 Wash. App. 463 - Pacesetter Real Estate, Inc. v. Fasules · Hagan v. Asa G. Candler Inc. · 10 Wash. App. 227 - Tagliani v. Colwell
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All persons purporting to act as or on behalf of a corporation, knowing there was no incorporation under this title, are jointly and severally liable for liabilities created while so acting except for any liability to any person who also knew that there was no incorporation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Although the individual who signs for a corporation is not a party to the contract, the individual may become a party with standing to enforce the contract by `assuming to act as a corporation without authority.'... The Washington court stated that all parties to the contract undeniably intended to create a valid, binding contract. Even if it is later determined that one of the parties erroneously represented itself to be a valid corporation, the contract is still enforceable.... Thus, `absent unfair prejudice ... from the use of a corporate name in the contract, [the individual purporting to act for a corporation] is a party to the contract and has an individual cause of action for its breach.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(1) All persons who assume to act as a corporation without authority so to do shall be jointly and severally liable for all debts and liabilities incurred or arising as a result thereof. (2) Subsection (1) of this section does not apply to any persons assuming to act as a corporation during a period of administrative dissolution if the corporation is subsequently reinstated under the provisions of sections 2 and 3 of this 1983 act.”
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.