112 Wash. 2d 829 - McLaughlin v. Cooke’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently September 2021 · most notably 117 Wash. 2d 242 - Douglas v. Freeman (1991), 128 Wash. 2d 300 - Reese v. Stroh (1995)
34 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 100 Wash. 2d 421 - Petersen v. State · 99 Wash. 2d 609 - Herskovits v. Group Health Cooperative · 109 Wash. 2d 467 - Dennis v. Department of Labor & Industries · 98 Wash. 2d 789 - State v. Crenshaw · Evans v. Lewis
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.
“The testimony must be sufficient to establish that the injury-producing situation `probably' or `more likely than not' caused the subsequent condition, rather than the accident or injury `might have,' `could have,' or `possibly did' cause the subsequent condition.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“if it can be said that, considering all the medical testimony presented at trial, the jury must resort to speculation or conjecture in determining the causal relationship”
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.