28 Wash. 2d 313 - Higgins v. Egbert’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently July 2021
18 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 Herrin v. Scandinavian-American Bank · Lasswell v. Anderson
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`it is not performance which makes the contract binding, but rather the giving of a promise by the one party for the promise of the other.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`the offer or promise of the one party does not become binding or enforcible [sic] until there is performance by the other party.'”
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.