100 Wash. 2d 299 - J & B Development Co. v. King County’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 117 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 130 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably 103 Wash. 2d 768 - Hartley v. State (1985), 115 Wash. 2d 506 - ATHERTON CONDO APARTMENT-OWNERS ASS'N BD OF DIRECTORS v. Blume Dev. Co. (1990)
6 federal appellate · 117 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 Harris v. McRae · 100 Wash. 2d 275 - Chambers-Castanes v. King County · 97 Wash. 2d 929 - Bernethy v. Walt Failor's, Inc. · 89 Wash. 2d 673 - Halvorson v. Dahl · 85 Wash. 2d 154 - LaPlante v. State
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 130 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the duty breached was owed to the injured person as an individual and was not merely the breach of an obligation owed to the public in general ( i.e., a duty to all is a duty to no one).”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage“shall be liable for damages arising out of their tortious conduct, or the tortious conduct of their officers ... to the same extent as if they were a private person or corporation”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“`focusing tool' used to determine whether a local government `is under a general duty to a nebulous public or whether that duty has focused on the claimant.'”
6 later decisions 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.