116 Wash. 2d 596 - Babcock v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 123 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 134 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably 118 Wash. 2d 195 - Taggart v. State (1992), 119 Wash. 2d 91 - Lutheran Day Care v. Snohomish County (1992)
3 federal appellate · 123 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 Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Malley v. Briggs · Kentucky v. Graham
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 134 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[s]ummary judgment exists to examine the sufficiency of legal claims and narrow issues, not as an unfair substitute for trial.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“a caseworker cannot escape liability for negligent investigation because the juvenile court commissioner relies on the caseworker's recommendation to allow a caseworker's placement decision to stand. In the absence of a preplacement adversary hearing in which a predisposition study is entered into evidence, the caseworker controls the flow of information to the court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he existence of some tort liability will encourage DSHS to avoid negligent conduct and leave open the possibility that those injured by DSHS's negligence can recover.”
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.