103 Wash. 2d 645 - Shorter v. Drury’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
1 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently May 2015 · most notably 119 Wash. 2d 484 - Scott v. Pacific West Mountain Resort (1992), 124 Wash. 2d 121 - Tincani v. Inland Empire Zoological Society (1994)
1 district · 26 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Sherbert v. Verner · Thomas v. Review Board of the Indiana Employment Security Division · 60 Cal. 2d 92 - Tunkl v. Regents of University of California · 348 So. 2d 287 - Blackburn v. Dorta · 79 Wash. 2d 198 - Baker v. CITY SEATTLE
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If you find that Mr. or Mrs. Shorter assumed a risk which was a proximate cause of Mrs. Shorter's death, you must determine the degree of such conduct, expressed as a percentage, attributable to Mr. and Mrs. Shorter.... Using 100% as to the total combined conduct of the parties (negligence and assumption of the risk) which contributed to the damage to the plaintiff, you must determine what percentage of such conduct is attributable to Mr. or Mrs. Shorter.”
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.