45 Wash. 2d 865 - Snyder v. Roberts’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently December 2007 · most notably 75 Wash. 2d 241 - Black v. Evergreen Land Developers, Inc. (1969), 13 Wash. App. 371 - Thomas v. Osborn (1975)
1 federal appellate · 24 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 Morris v. . Whitcher · Davis v. Lee · Slocum v. Bracy · Wilson v. Wilson · Duncan v. McAdams
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.
“grantor or the grantee is attempting to enforce against the other, stipulations in the contract which are not contained in, not performed by, and not inconsistent with the deed and which are held to be collateral to or independent of the obligation to convey.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is well settled that the surrender of or forbearance from asserting a legal claim on which there exists a reasonable possibility of recovery is sufficient considerationfor a promise. Nicholson v. Neary, 77 Wash. 294 , 137 Pac. 492 (1914); Sweeny v. Sweeny Inv. Co., 199 Wash. 135 , 90 P. (2d) 716 , 139 A.LR. 847 (1939); Opitz v. Hayden, 17 Wn. (2d) 347, 135 P. (2d) 819 (1943); 1 Restatement, Contracts, 83, § 76.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The execution, delivery, and acceptance of a deed varying from the terms of the antecedent contract indicates an amendment of the original contract, and generally the rights of the parties are fixed by their expressions as contained in the deed.”
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.