97 Wash. App. 169 - Sprague v. Sysco Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
20 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 108
Relies on Hopkins v. Reeves · Ino Ino, Inc. v. City of Bellevue · 1993-1 Payless Wholesale Distributors Inc v. Alberto Culver Inc · Beal for Martinez v. City of Seattle · Hammes v. Brumley
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[n]o action shall be dismissed on the ground that it is not prosecuted in the name of the real party in interest until a reasonable time has been allowed after objection for ratification of commencement of the action by, or joinder or substitution of, the real party in interest; and such ratification, joinder, or substitution shall have the same effect as if the action had been commenced in the name of the real party in interest.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“Standing requires that the plaintiff demonstrate an injury to a legally protected right. The real party in interest is the person who possesses the right sought to be enforced.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Miller v. Campbell“the amendment changes nothing except who will benefit from the action”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Miller v. Campbell
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.