Halbert v. Forney’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently July 2013
12 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 121 Wash. 2d 715 - Kruse v. Hemp · 96 Wash. 2d 973 - Northwest Television Club, Inc. v. Gross Seattle, Inc. · 125 Wash. 2d 544 - Berg v. Ting · 121 Wash. 2d 152 - Wfse v. Ofm · 35 Wash. 2d 223 - Martin v. Seigel
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when the parties, although sharing an identical intent when they formed a written document, did not express that intent in the document.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The Restatement recognizes that such mistakes can include a misunderstanding of the law, since the law in existence at the time of the making of the contract is part of the total state of facts at that time.”
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.