35 Wash. 2d 223 - Martin v. Seigel’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably Key Design Inc. v. Moser (1999), 2 Wash. App. 144 - In Re Estate of Verbeek (1970)
48 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 Broadway Hospital & Sanitarium v. Decker · Rogers v. Lippy · Nelson v. Davis · Thompson, Swan & Lee v. Schneider · West v. Cave
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It will thus be seen that this court is at variance with the more liberal rule which permits parol testimony to explain what particular property the parties had in mind when they contracted to transfer real property described merely by a street number. We do not care to recede from the rule adopted by us, which has been stated in a long line of decisions over a number of years, and known and followed by the members of the bar and title men. We do not apologize for the rule. We feel that it is fair and just to require people dealing with real estate to properly and adequately describe it, so that courts may not be compelled to resort to extrinsic evidence in order to find out what was in the minds of the contracting parties.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“In the interests of continuity and clarity of the law of this state with respect to legal descriptions, we hereby hold that every contract or agreement involving a sale or conveyance of platted real property must contain, in addition to the other requirements of the statute of frauds, the description of such property by the correct lot number(s), block number, addition, city, county, and state.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“`[A] contract or deed for the conveyance of land must contain a description of the land sufficiently definite to locate it without recourse to oral testimony [or extrinsic evidence], or else it must contain a reference to another instrument which does contain a sufficient description.'”
4 later decisions 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.