38 Wash. 2d 649 - Morrison v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 2012
16 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 98 Cal. App. 690 - Weintraub v. Weingart · McDuffie v. Noonan · Central Building Co. v. Keystone Shares Corp. · Bemis v. Wilder · Seguin v. Plano
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Whether or not an instrument is to be deemed an assignment of a lease is to be determined by the legal effect and not the form of the instrument. ... If its legal effect is to substitute a third party for the lessee, conferring upon him the right to the benefits and subjecting him to the burden of the lease for the balance of the term thereof, without providing for any reversionary interest in the original lessee, it will be held to amount to an assignment."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the invalidity of an assignment, on the ground that it has not been assented to by the lessor, can be raised only by the lessor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“assignment in violation of a restriction is not void, but voidable at the option of the lessor”
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.