69 Wash. 2d 422 - Malacky v. Scheppler’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently June 1989
4 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. · McFarland v. Department of Labor & Industries · 66 Wash. 2d 108 - Crow v. Crow · 27 Wash. 2d 279 - Code v. London · 30 Wash. 2d 278 - In Re the Estate of Simon
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Proof of the real consideration, or lack of it, is an exception to the general rule that oral or extrinsic evidence cannot be asserted to vary the terms of a written instrument. Recitals of consideration in a written instrument are not conclusive. It is competent to inquire into the consideration and show, by parol evidence, the real or true consideration.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Aust v. Bridges
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.