Hall v. Walter’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 24 district · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions — most recently December 2021 · most notably State v. Nieto (2000), Plath v. Schonrock (2003)
8 federal appellate · 24 district · 50 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 105 Wash. 2d 778 - Hangman Ridge Training Stables, Inc. v. Safeco Title Insurance · 122 Wash. 2d 299 - Washington State Physicians Insurance Exchange & Ass'n v. Fisons Corp. · Wimberly v. Ettenberg · 190 Ill. App. 3d 524 - Downers Grove Volkswagen, Inc. v. Wigglesworth Imports, Inc. · Commonwealth v. Mahdi
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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) that the defendant engaged in an unfair or deceptive trade practice; (2) that the challenged practice occurred in the course of defendant’s business, vocation, or occupation; (3) that it significantly impacts the public as actual or potential consumers of the defendant’s goods, services, or property; (4) that the plaintiff suffered injury in fact to a legally protected interest; and (5) that the challenged practice caused the plaintiffs injury.”
22 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[B]ecause the misrepresentations were directed to the market generally, taking the form of widespread advertisement and deception of actual and prospective purchasers”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Any person who brings an action under this article that is found by the court to be groundless and in bad faith or for the purpose of harassment shall be lable to the defendant for the costs of the action together with reasonable attorney fees as determined by the court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.