44 Wash. 2d 288 - Halver v. Welle’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently June 2002 · most notably 83 Wash. 2d 797 - State v. O'CONNELL (1974), Sheeran v. General Electric Co. (1979)
11 federal appellate · 12 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 Caldwell v. Hurley · Warren v. Rickles · Edwards v. Surety Finance Co. · Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Co. v. Seattle Grain Co. · Lindblom v. Johnston
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The peculiar feature of our statute is that an implied liability arising out of a written instrument is included in the same clause with an express liability arising out of a written contract. The legislature evidently thereby intended that a certain class of actions should be included within the terms of said section which had not in other states been associated or connected with actions on written instruments or actions founded upon written agreements. ... To place any other construction on our statute would be to hold that the words contained in the last clause of said [the six-year statute] were placed there without purpose or meaning.[ 39 ]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“unable to find in the contract any liability or promise on the part of the builders, express or implied, that they would refund any sums overpaid to them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A liability created by statute is one in which no element of agreement enters. It is an obligation which the law creates in the absence of an agreement.”
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.