83 Wash. 2d 175 - Swanson v. White’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently July 2000
13 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 State v. Carey · 77 Wash. 2d 144 - Petstel, Inc. v. County of King · 55 Wash. 2d 286 - Yelle v. Bishop · 50 Wash. 2d 1 - DeGrief v. City of Seattle · 60 Wash. 2d 151 - Long v. Odell
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] conditional vendor is given a means of protecting his interest — he can file his contract . . . But a lessor is afforded no such protection. We are unable to discover any statute which provides for the filing of a lease as a means of protecting the interest of the lessor. The Uniform Commercial Code requires the filing of ostensible leases which are in fact taken as security interests— leases which give the lessee the option to purchase. See RCW 62A.1-201 (37). The leases involved in this action are admittedly bona fide leases which require the return of the leased property at the expiration of the leasehold term. . . . Since the legislature has not seen fit to require the filing of leases (unless they are in fact security devices) in order to protect the interest of the lessor, it has at least impliedly recognized that the lessor's interest is not subject to claims of creditors of the lessee.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Any person to whom rent may be due, his executors, administrators, or assigns, shall have a lien for such rent upon personal property which has been used or kept on the rented premises by the tenant, . . . Such liens for rent shall be paramount to, and have preference over, all other liens except liens for taxes, general and special liens of labor, and liens of mortgages duly recorded prior to the tenancy. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“indicates that foreign countries are not included. In addition, RCW 82.12.030 itself provides that The provisions of this chapter shall not apply: (4) In respect to the use of any airplane, locomotive, railroad car, or watercraft used primarily in conducting interstate or foreign commerce . . . If the legislature had intended the word”
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.