11 Wash. App. 72 - Hewitt v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 4 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably 119 Wash. 2d 484 - Scott v. Pacific West Mountain Resort (1992), 172 Ind. App. 389 - LaFrenz v. Lake County Fair Board (1977)
5 federal appellate · 4 district · 24 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 83 Wash. 2d 491 - Morris v. McNicol · 62 Wash. 2d 195 - Balise v. Underwood · 79 Wash. 2d 198 - Baker v. CITY SEATTLE · 79 Wash. 2d 443 - McCutcheon v. United Homes Corp. · Broderson v. Rainier National Park Co.
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“so conspicuous that reasonable men could not reach different conclusions . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Safety Affirmation and Release (Read Carefully, then sign) . . . [Release terms.] I Have Fully Informed Myself of the Contents of This Affirmation and Release by Reading It Before I Signed It.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Absent some statute to the contrary, the generally accepted rule is that contracts against liability for negligence are valid except in those cases where a public interest is involved”
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.