82 Wash. 2d 250 - Stender v. Twin City Foods, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 104 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably 115 Wash. 2d 657 - Berg v. Hudesman (1990), 84 Wash. 2d 498 - State v. Smith (1974)
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 76 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. · 77 Wash. 2d 911 - Jacoby v. Grays Harbor Chair & Mfg. Co. · 49 Wash. 2d 363 - Milone & Tucci, Inc. v. Bona Fide Builders, Inc. · 81 Wash. 2d 637 - Sylvester v. Imhoff · 72 Wash. 2d 211 - Safeco Insurance Co. of America v. McManemy
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 104 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Determination of the intent of the contracting parties is to be accomplished by viewing the contract as a whole, the subject matter and objective of the contract, all the circumstances surrounding the making of the contract, the subsequent acts and conduct of the parties to the contract, and the reasonableness of respective interpretations advocated by the parties.”
23 later decisions quote this exact passage“Once a contract is established, usage and custom are admissible into evidence to explain the terms of the contract.”
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.