49 Wash. 2d 707 - Rigby v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently October 2011
8 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.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This theory is not sound. The earnest-money agreements are only the first of a number of instruments comprising the terms of the transactions which defined the rights of the parties thereto. They give no right of possession to either land or houses until the transactions are closed. This entails three additional requirements subsequent to the earnest-money agreements: (1) the approval of credits, (2) the delivery of mortgages, and (3) the delivery of deeds. When all of these steps have occurred and the transactions are closed, the right to possession follows as a matter of law. The earnest-money agreements do not give any rights of possession before that time. The purchasers were, therefore, not entitled to possession of the land during the construction of the houses and are not consumers under the statute.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The term "sale at retail" or "retail sale" shall include the sale of or charge made for tangible personal property consumed and/or for labor and services rendered in respect to the following: . . . (b) the constructing ... of new . . . buildings or other structures under, upon, or above real property of or for consumers . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(4) Any person who . . . has the right of possession to . . . real property which is being constructed, . . .”
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.