44 Wash. 2d 760 - Richardson v. Danson’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently December 2009
2 federal appellate · 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 Maguire v. City of Macomb · Shufeldt v. Shufeldt · Kentland Coal & Coke Co. v. Keen · City of Cheeryvale v. Wilson · Thompson's Estate
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The great weight of authority is that where the fee simple title to real estate passes under a deed or will, any restraint attempted to be imposed by the instrument upon the grantee or devisee is to be treated as void, and the grantee or devisee takes the property free of the void condition.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the law seeks to encourage the ready alienation of property and to discourage restraints upon alienation which would result in withdrawing such property from the ordinary channels of trade”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'It has been said that a condition which would ordinarily be considered precedent may be construed as a condition subsequent where the gift is to a charity'”
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.