86 Wash. 2d 331 - Lightfoot v. MacDonald’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably 105 Wash. 2d 778 - Hangman Ridge Training Stables, Inc. v. Safeco Title Insurance (1986), 100 Wash. 2d 581 - Bowers v. Transamerica Title Insurance (1983)
64 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. § 15 (§ 4 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914) · 15 U.S.C. § 45 (§ 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914)
Relies on Burlington Truck Lines, Inc. v. United States · Phelps Dodge Corporation v. National Labor Relations Board · Goldfarb v. Virginia State Bar · Ohio v. Kentucky · Fortner Enterprises, Inc. v. United States Steel Corp.
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]n act or practice of which a private individual may complain must be one which also would be vulnerable to a complaint by the Attorney General under the act. A breach of a private contract affecting no one but the parties to the contract, whether that breach be negligent or intentional, is not an act or practice affecting the public interest.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“... this act shall not be construed to prohibit acts or practices ... which are not injurious to the public interest...”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“`restraints of trade, unfair competition and unfair, deceptive, and fraudulent acts or practices in order to protect the public and foster fair and honest competition.'”
4 later decisions 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.