40 Wash. 2d 779 - Hubbell v. Ward’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently November 2009 · most notably 121 Wash. 2d 715 - Kruse v. Hemp (1993), 107 Wash. 2d 693 - Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center v. Holman (1987)
3 federal appellate · 26 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 Asia Investment Co. v. Levin · Woods v. Matthews · Weldon v. Degan · Omak Realty Investment Co. v. Dewey · Newell v. Lamping
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When equity assumes jurisdiction over the subject matter of an action and the parties to be affected by its decree, it will retain jurisdiction for all purposes. Jurisdiction having attached, it extends to the whole controversy, and whatever relief the facts warrant will be granted.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“We are unable to determine that there is any standard form of such contract or, if there be such, what its provisions are. Real-estate purchase contracts differ in their provisions depending upon the nature of the property involved and the individual requirements of the parties thereto.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“in so far as it looks to the preparation and execution of a future real-estate purchase contract upon which the minds of the parties have not met, is not sufficiently definite and certain and cannot be specifically enforced.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hagensen v. Petersen
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.