35 Wash. 2d 903 - Lechner v. Halling’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently January 2002 · most notably 96 Wash. 2d 874 - Golberg v. Sanglier (1982), Young v. Bishop (1960)
6 federal appellate · 14 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 Nichols v. Oppermann · In Re Assessment of Alleged Omitted Property of Kennedy · Bronx Investment Co. v. National Bank of Commerce · McLain v. Healy · Manning v. Foster
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Once deposited in escrow, an instrument passes beyond the control of the depositor, and he may not recall it.... Upon the performance of the condition named, the depositary must deliver it to the grantee. A deposit in escrow, therefore, amounts, by its terms, to a conditional delivery....”
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.