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Crown Controls, Inc. v. Smiley

Is it still good law? What later courts have actually done to this case.

Good law
Court
Supreme Court of Washington
Citation
756 P.2d 717
Decided
Confirmed treatments
0
Flagged citations read
63 of 63
Citing cases (total)
63
Good law
Every flagged citation to this case has been read, and none of them overrules, limits, or questions it. Crown Controls, Inc. v. Smiley remains good law: all 63 flagged citations have been read and no adverse treatment was confirmed. The treatment language in those opinions describes Crown Controls's earlier rejection of decisions such as Glover v. Tacoma General Hospital, Maxwell's Electric, Inc. v. Hegeman-Harris Co., and Patent Scaffolding Co. v. Roosevelt Apartments, Inc. None of the citing courts rejected Crown Controls's rule permitting joint and several liability for an agent and an undisclosed principal, subject to one satisfaction.
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63 later cases cite Crown Controls, Inc. v. Smiley; 63 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Every one of the 63 flagged citations was read, and each turned out to be something other than adverse treatment: a routine application, a party's argument the court rejected, or the case itself discussing older law. That reading is the finding this page exists to report.

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