12 Wash. 2d 589 - Maxwell v. Maxwell’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently May 2008
5 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 Carew, Shaw & Bernasconi, Inc. v. General Casualty Co. of America · Fagan v. Walters · Cook v. Hensler · Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee Railway Co. v. Howland · Konnerup v. Milspaugh
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here both parties have an identical intention . . . and a writing executed by them is materially at variance with such intention, a court of equity will reform the writing so that it shall express their intention.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]f the description of the land is so vague and indefinite that effect could not be given the instrument without writing new, material language into it, then parol evidence is not admissible. There must be language in the deed sufficient to serve as a pointer or a guide to the ascertainment of the location of the land.”
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.