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104 Wash. 2d 181 - Bowman v. John Doe’s Empirical Analysis

1985

Citation profile

72
cited by 72 later decisions
7
states following
August 2024
most recently cited

71 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably 109 Wash. 2d 107 - Haberman v. Washington Public Power Supply System (1988), 119 Wash. 2d 251 - Hizey v. Carpenter (1992)

71 state decisions

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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 International Ass'n of Machinists v. Duckworth · Ultramares Corp. v. Touche · 56 Cal. 2d 583 - Lucas v. Hamm · 103 Wash. 2d 768 - Hartley v. State · Savings Bank v. Ward

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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “`it appears beyond doubt that the plaintiff can prove no set of facts, consistent with the complaint, which would entitle the plaintiff to relief.'”
    10 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 109 Wash. 2d 675 - Stangland v. Brock · 107 Wash. 2d 444 - Lawson v. State
  2. “the extent to which the transaction was intended to affect the plaintiff; the foreseeability of harm to the plaintiff; the degree of certainty that the plaintiff suffered injury; the closeness of the connection between the defendant's conduct and the injury; the policy of preventing future harm; and the extent to which the profession would be unduly burdened by a finding of liability.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 119 Wash. 2d 357 - Bohn v. Cody · 123 Wash. 2d 835 - Trask v. Butler
  3. “in no instance has a court found liability to a third party adversary.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Jones v. Allstate Ins. Co.

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.