88 Wash. 2d 614 - Stanard v. Bolin’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
2 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently November 2001 · most notably 89 Wash. 2d 959 - Corrigal v. Ball & Dodd Funeral Home, Inc. (1978), St. Luke Evangelical Lutheran Church, Inc. v. Smith (1990)
2 district · 20 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 81 Wash. 2d 183 - Freehe v. Freehe · 43 Wash. 2d 162 - Pierce v. Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital Ass'n · 77 Wash. 2d 209 - Hogenson v. Service Armament Co. · 43 Wash. 2d 386 - Kramer v. Portland-Seattle Auto Freight, Inc. · 15 Wash. App. 395 - Wyman v. Wallace
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Although the action is treated as arising from the breach of a contract . ., the damages allowable more closely resemble a tort action. Thus, the plaintiff may recover for loss to reputation, mental anguish, and injury to health, in addition to recovering for expenditures made in preparation for the marriage and loss of the pecuniary and social advantages which the promised marriage offered. In addition, some states allow aggravated damages for seduction under promise to marry and for attacks by the defendant on the plaintiff’s character. Furthermore, some states allow punitive damages when the defendant’s acts were malicious or fraudulent.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Waddell v. Briggs“to the extent that a plaintiff cannot recover for loss of expected financial and social position, because marriage is no longer considered to be a property transaction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“and determine its continued viability in light of present-day society.”
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.