Ryckman v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 state decisions

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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““[1-4] Rem. Rev. Stat. Sec. 204, provides that actions for the following causes, among others, shall be commenced in the county in which the subject of the action, or some part thereof, is situated. “ T. For the recovery of, for the possession of, for the partition of, for the foreclosure of a mortgage on, or for the determination of all questions affecting the title or for any injuries to real property’. (Italics ours). “The term ‘subject of the action,’ as used in this section of the statute, means that which will be directly affected if the relief sought by the plaintiff be granted. In this case, the object of the action is to have the transactions above described declared fraudulent and to have the title to the land adjudged to be in John P. Johnson and wife, or held for their benefit, so as to subject it to the lien of respondent’s judgment. But the thing affected by the decree, or the subject of the action, is the land itself, according to whether John P. Johnson and wife are, or are not, held to be the owners thereof.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Banbury v. Brailsford

2. ““Appellants cite and rely upon certain of our decisions which hold that actions wherein it is sought to establish and enforce a trust, or where the court in the exercise of its equity powers acts to compel parties before it to do a particular thing, or where, in the defendant’s answer, title to real property is brought into issue only incidentally, are transitory, inasmuch as the decree acts only in personam. The principles enunciated in those cases are well settled, in this state at least, but they do not meet this case, because, as already stated, the subject of the action involves, and the object of the action is directed toward, the land and the title thereto. “ Tt is the policy of our law that all transactions affecting the title to real estate shall be matters of record in the county where such real estate is situated, so that any one concerned therewith may be informed as to the condition of its title by an examination of the public records in such county.’ Seymour v. LaFurgey, 47 Wash. 450 , 92 Pac. 267 .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State Ex Rel. Hamilton v. Superior Court

3. “Actions for the following causes shall be commenced in the county in which the subject of the action, or some part thereof, is situated: (1) For the recovery of, for the possession of, for the partition of, for the foreclosure of a mortgage on, or for ■the determination of all questions affecting the title, dr for any injuries to real property.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 7 Wash. App. 345 - Temple v. Feeney