15 Wash. App. 437 - Barnes v. Treece’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably Lockwood v. Wolf Corp. (1980), Collins v. Thompson (1982)
8 federal appellate · 24 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 60 Wash. 2d 623 - Lamb v. General Associates, Inc. · Rayonier, Incorporated v. F. Arnold Polson · 70 Wash. 2d 145 - Browning v. Johnson · 69 Wash. 2d 658 - Lumber Mart Co. v. Buchanan · 6 Wash. App. 744 - Peoples Mortgage Co. v. Vista View Builders
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The trial court properly categorized Treece’s promise of $100,000 as a valid offer for a unilateral contract. The offer made promised that a contract would result upon performance of the act requested. Performance of the act with the intent to accept the offer constituted acceptance. The trial judge entered a specific finding that Barnes performed the requested act of acceptance when he produced a rigged and fraudulent punchboard. We concur with the trial court’s holding that a binding unilateral contract was formed between Barnes and Treece and uphold the conclusions of the trial court in that regard.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[I]f the corporate principal, with full knowledge of the material facts (1) receives, accepts, and retains benefits from the contract, (2) remains silent, acquiesces, and fails to repudiate or disaffirm the contract, or (3) otherwise exhibits conduct demonstrating an adoption and recognition of the contract as binding.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Treece’s statements before the gambling commission and reiterated to Barnes personally on the telephone constituted a valid offer for a unilateral contract.” Id.; see also Newman, 778 F.2d at 463, 466 (finding that the confirma-tive statement,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kolodziej v. Mason
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.