108 Wash. 2d 220 - Purchase v. Meyer’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
1 district · 60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably 113 Wash. 2d 479 - Christen v. Lee (1989), Schooley v. Pinch's Deli Market, Inc. (1998)
1 district · 60 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 98 Wash. 2d 434 - Wilson v. Steinbach · 80 Wash. 2d 547 - Sorenson v. City of Bellingham · 105 Wash. 2d 457 - Dickinson v. Edwards · 94 Wash. 2d 640 - Barrie v. Hosts of America, Inc. · 99 Wash. 2d 655 - Young v. Caravan Corporation
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“neither the results of a blood alcohol test nor the appearance of a person a substantial time after the intoxicating liquor was served constitutes sufficient evidence of obvious intoxication.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“apparently under the influence of liquor,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“under the influence of intoxicating liquor at the time of the accident,”
2 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.