71 Wash. 2d 25 - Sander v. Wells’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
2 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently May 2002
2 district · 18 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. · 68 Wash. 2d 75 - Hollingbery v. Dunn · 55 Wash. 2d 771 - Tombari v. Griepp · 51 Wash. 2d 412 - Desimone v. Spence · Vandin v. Henry McCleary Timber 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"An agreement which produces no legal obligation is frequently called a void contract. Though the phrase is often convenient, it is a contradiction in terms. If an agreement is void it is not a contract. A voidable contract, however, is common in the law. Such a contract is defined in the Restatement of Contracts [1 Restatement of the Law of Contracts 12, § 13] as one 'where one or more parties thereto have the power, by a manifestation of election to do so, to avoid the legal relations created by the contract; or by ratification of the contract to extinguish the power of avoidance.' Infancy, fraud, mistake, duress, some kinds of illegality, all afford ground for rescinding or refusing to perform a contract. Unless rescinded, however, a voidable contract imposes on the parties the same obligations as if it were not voidable." Cf. 1 Corbin on Contracts 11, § 6 et seq.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Contracts which convey... community realty and which lack [a spouse's] signature are voidable [.]”
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.