36 Wash. 2d 41 - Bond v. Wiegardt’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 4 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently March 1998 · most notably 65 Wash. App. 285 - Peck v. Siau (1992), 96 Wash. 2d 939 - Retail Clerks Health & Welfare Trust Funds v. Shopland Supermarket, Inc. (1982)
5 federal appellate · 4 district · 23 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 Buck v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States · Duplex Envelope Co. v. Baltimore Post Co. · Snead & Co. Iron Works v. Merchants Loan & Trust Co. · Anderson v. Mitchell · Reiner v. Crawford
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“presupposes an action based on a valid contract; and if the issue is as to the existence or validity of the alleged contract, the rule, by its very terms, has no application.”
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.