111 Wash. 2d 159 - Taylor v. Stevens County’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 197 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 223 later decisions — most recently January 2021 · most notably 115 Wash. 2d 506 - ATHERTON CONDO APARTMENT-OWNERS ASS'N BD OF DIRECTORS v. Blume Dev. Co. (1990), 118 Wash. 2d 195 - Taggart v. State (1992)
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 197 state decisions — followed in 11 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 103 Wash. 2d 768 - Hartley v. State · 100 Wash. 2d 275 - Chambers-Castanes v. King County · 101 Wash. 2d 226 - Pedroza v. Bryant · 89 Wash. 2d 673 - Halvorson v. Dahl · 108 Wash. 2d 262 - Bailey v. Town of Forks
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 223 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).”
27 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) there is direct contact or privity between the public official and the injured plaintiff which sets the latter apart from the general public, and (2) there are express assurances given by a public official, which (3) gives rise to justifiable reliance on the part of the plaintiff.”
14 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.'”
8 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.