Sunderland v. Whitcomb’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 103 Wash. 2d 431 - In Re the Estate of Bergau · 79 Wash. 2d 849 - Burg v. Old National Bank · 15 Wash. 2d 35 - Allen v. Dillard · 42 Wash. 2d 234 - Seattle First National Bank v. Crosby · 88 Wash. App. 522 - In Re Estate of Catto
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A general residuary gift in an owner's will, or a will making general disposition of all of the owner's property, does not entitle the devisees or legatees to receive nonprobate assets of the owner.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. MANARY v. Anderson“RCW 11.11.020 directs the manner of changing the beneficiaries of a nonprobate asset”
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.