117 Wash. 2d 242 - Douglas v. Freeman’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 105 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 112 later decisions — most recently July 2021 · most notably State v. Hendrickson (1996), 124 Wash. 2d 158 - Havens v. C & D PLASTICS, INC. (1994)
3 federal appellate · 105 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 Eli Lilly & Co. v. Medtronic, Inc. · 100 Wash. 2d 421 - Petersen v. State · 109 Wash. 2d 235 - Lockwood v. a C & S, Inc. · 101 Wash. 2d 226 - Pedroza v. Bryant · 41 Wash. App. 495 - Byerly v. Madsen
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 112 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[t]he number and specific language of the instructions are matters left to the trial court's discretion.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is a well-established maxim that this court will generally not address arguments raised for the first time in a supplemental brief and not made originally by the petitioner or respondent within the petition for review or the response to the petition.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“no competent evidence or reasonable inference that would sustain a verdict for the nonmoving party.”
3 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.