6 Wash. App. 830 - Schinnell v. Doyle’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 1999
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 54 Wash. 2d 570 - Thorndike v. Hesperian Orchards, Inc. · 52 Wash. 2d 176 - Fleetham v. Schneekloth · 77 Wash. 2d 1 - Home Indemnity Co. v. McClellan Motors, Inc. · 33 Wash. 2d 334 - Buyken v. Ertner · 48 Wash. 2d 22 - Schwieger v. Harry W. Robbins & Co.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[W]here there is no ambiguity, all conversations, contemporaneous negotiations, and parol agreements between the parties pri- or to a "written agreement are merged therein. In the absence of accident, fraud or mistake, parol evidence is not admissible for the purpose of contradicting, subtracting from, adding to, or varying the terms of such "written instruments.””
3 later decisions 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.