83 Wash. 2d 911 - Weiss v. Bruno’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently July 2006 · most notably 121 Wash. 2d 52 - Bowles v. Department of Retirement Systems (1993), 87 Wash. 2d 796 - Hsu Ying Li v. Tang (1976)
42 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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 78N (§ 14 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934)
Relies on Mills v. Electric Auto-Lite Co. · Sprage v. Ticonic Nat Bank · Trustees v. Greenough · 83 Wash. 2d 275 - Fritz v. Gorton · Southern v. Beeler, Atty.-Gen.
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) a successful suit brought by petitioners (2) challenging the expenditure of public funds (3) made pursuant to patently unconstitutional legislative and administrative actions (4) following a refusal by the appropriate official and agency to maintain such a challenge.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he power to award attorney fees `springs from our inherent equitable powers, [and] we are at liberty to set the boundaries of the exercise of that power.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is the general rule in the United States as well as in Washington that attorneys’ fees are not ordinarily recoverable except pursuant to statute or under a contractual obligation. ... However, it has long been the rule that equity may allow reimbursement of attorneys’ fees from a fund created or preserved by a litigant for the benefit of others as well as himself. This “common fund” doctrine has its roots in English law. ... Charges of this nature against public funds have also been allowed. ... The principle has been broadened so that it is not limited to the creation or preservation of monetary funds, but extends to situations where a litigant confers some other substantial benefit on an ascertainable class, such as preserving the rights of corporate shareholders.”
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.