While Motonaga got off without litigation because Owari Province was near the capital Kyoto that provided an easier access to law specialists, if a similar conflict had happened in the Kanto region between kokushi and people in his province (fumyo - tiller of public rice fields) managers, gunji, and zaichokanjin - the local officials), it would have amounted to a war.
京の近国で、おそらくは京の法律の専門家とも連携しやすい尾張国だから訴訟で済んだものの、その前後の関東ではおそらく同様の国司と国人（負名経営者と郡司、在庁官人）との軋轢は戦乱にまでなっている。