113 Wash. 2d 479 - Christen v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 122 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 138 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably 118 Wash. 2d 195 - Taggart v. State (1992), 118 Wash. 2d 476 - Hansen v. Friend (1992)
2 federal appellate · 122 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 98 Wash. 2d 434 - Wilson v. Steinbach · 103 Wash. 2d 768 - Hartley v. State · 87 Wash. 2d 424 - Hunsley v. Giard · 42 Wash. 2d 316 - McLeod v. Grant County School District No. 128 · 96 Ill. 2d 520 - Board of Education of Arbor Park School District No. 145 v. Ballweber
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 138 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[t]he harm sustained [is] reasonably perceived as being within the general field of danger covered by the specific duty owed by the defendant.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“In sum, the history of the duty owed by a furnisher of intoxicating liquor in this state evinces a well considered and reasoned reluctance on the part of this court, in light of the Legislature's repeal of this state's dramshop act, to now judicially decree common law liability in cases other than those fitting within the well-recognized exceptions to the common law rule.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“`[f]oreseeability is normally an issue for the jury, but it will be decided as a matter of law where reasonable minds cannot differ.'”
4 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.