107 Wash. 2d 388 - Willener v. Sweeting’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 147 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 161 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably 115 Wash. 2d 217 - American Nursery Products, Inc. v. Indian Wells Orchards (1990), American Continental Ins. Co. v. Steen (2004)
2 federal appellate · 147 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 97 Wash. 2d 562 - State v. Loewen · 82 Wash. 2d 475 - Eastlake Community Council v. Roanoke Associates, Inc. · 96 Wash. 2d 874 - Golberg v. Sanglier · 100 Wash. 2d 476 - Goodman v. Darden, Doman & Stafford Associates · 85 Wash. 2d 95 - Mahoney v. Tingley
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 161 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A conclusion of law erroneously described as a finding of fact is reviewed as a conclusion of law.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“positions they would have occupied if no contract had ever been made.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“testimony throughout the record question[ed] plaintiffs' ability to provide the necessary funds to close the deal with defendants”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Firth v. Lu
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.