21 Wash. App. 769 - Colley v. Bi-State, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently November 2006
4 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 Eastern Air Lines, Inc., Plaintiff-Appellant-Cross v. McDonnell Douglas Corporation, Defendant-Appellee-Cross · Mishara Construction Co. v. Transit-Mixed Concrete Corp. · 88 Wash. 2d 835 - American Oil Co. v. Columbia Oil Co. · Snipes Mountain Co. v. Benz Bros. & Co. · 381 F. Supp. 181 - Ralston Purina Company v. McNabb
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.
“(a) Delay in delivery or nondelivery in whole or in part by a seller ... is not a breach of his duty under a contract for sale if performance as agreed has been made impracticable by the occurrence of a contingency the nonoccurrence of which was a basic assumption on which the contract was made ....”
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.