97 Wash. 2d 598 - Ross v. Scannell’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently July 2016 · most notably 118 Wash. 2d 451 - Eriks v. Denver (1992), 124 Wash. 2d 318 - Barr v. Day (1994)
5 federal appellate · 46 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 Fillmore v. Wells · Ramey v. Graves · 72 Wash. 2d 662 - Dailey v. Testone · Humphrey v. Browning · Wright v. Johanson
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[p]rofessional misconduct may be grounds for denying an attorney his fees,”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“Lien created. An attorney has a lien for his compensation, whether specially agreed upon or implied, as hereinafter provided: (1) Upon the papers of his client, which have come into his possession in the course of his professional employment; (2) upon money in his hands belonging to his client; (3) upon money in the hands of the adverse party in an action or proceeding, in which the attorney was employed, from the time of giving notice of the lien to that party; (4) upon a judgment to the extent of the value of any services performed by him in the action, or if the services were rendered under a special agreement, for the sum due under such agreement, from the time of filing notice of such lien or claim with the clerk of the court in which such judgment is entered, which notice must be filed with the papers in the action in which such judgment was rendered, and an entry made in the execution docket, showing name of claimant, amount claimed and date of filing notice.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he result of our approving the practice would allow members of the Bar to cloud title to real property with “claims of attorney lien” without resort to any adjudication of such claims. The potential for economic coercion by attorneys is obvious. In today’s economic setting a client may well be forced to settle the attorney’s claim for fees, no matter how unfounded, simply to gain the ability to convey, lease, or otherwise utilize the “liened” property.”
2 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.