108 Wash. 2d 69 - Hoffman v. Connall’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently April 2013
22 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 99 Wash. 2d 438 - Harris v. Groth · 71 Ill. App. 3d 257 - Lyons v. Christ Episcopal Church · 101 Wash. 2d 161 - McRae v. Bolstad · 92 Wash. 2d 854 - Walker v. Bangs · Lawson v. Vernon
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘The underlying rationale of [a broker’s] duty to a buyer who is not his client is that he is a professional who is in a unique position to verify critical information given him by the seller. His duty is to take reasonable steps to avoid disseminating to the buyer false information. The broker is required to employ a reasonable degree of effort and professional expertise to confirm or refute information from the seller which he knows, or should know, is pivotal to the transaction from the buyer’s perspective.’ (Citations omitted).””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“a real estate broker must act as a professional, and will be held to a standard of reasonable care”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The standard title insurance policy, however, usually does not require a survey and thereby does not guarantee that the purported boundaries are cor rect. To obtain such coverage, the buyers could have purchased an extended coverage policy that usually requires a survey. Such a policy affords a buyer greater protection than the standard policy.”
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.