Malnar v. Carlson’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently September 2023 · most notably Greater Harbor 2000 v. City of Seattle (1997), Crisman v. Crisman (1997)
42 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 114 Wash. 2d 271 - Marincovich v. Tarabochia · 124 Wash. 2d 205 - Rice v. Dow Chemical Co. · 119 Wash. 2d 640 - Simpson Tacoma Kraft Co. v. Department of Ecology · 96 Wash. 2d 85 - U. S. Oil & Refining Co. v. Department of Ecology · 110 Wash. 2d 912 - Hash v. Children's Orthopedic Hospital & Medical Center
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“does not apply to an oral agreement which is for an indefinite length of time and terminable at will”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[s]uch agreements are not contracts for the sale or transfer of interests in land.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Firth v. Lu
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.