108 Wash. 2d 445 - Byrne v. Ackerlund’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently July 2021 · most notably Strunk v. Chromy-Strunk (2006), 69 Wash. App. 484 - Matter of Marriage of Sedlock (1993)
42 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 Drews v. Maryland · 95 Wash. 2d 94 - Wagner v. Wagner · 96 Wash. 2d 183 - In Re the Marriage of Little · 95 Wash. 2d 699 - In Re the Marriage of Gimlett · 90 Wash. 2d 201 - Yeats v. Estate of Yeats
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where one party holds title and the other a lien, the parties' respective interests are more removed [than in a tenancy in common]. A lien is merely an encumbrance to secure an obligation and involves no characteristics of co-ownership.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the decree imposed on Ackerlund no obligation whatsoever to sell the property. Rather, Ackerlund's sale of the property can appropriately be viewed as a `condition precedent' to the accrual of Byrne's right to enforce payment on her liens.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Where one construction would make a contract unreasonable, and another, equally consistent with its language, would make it reasonable, the latter more rational construction must prevail.”
1 later decision 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.