123 Wash. 2d 835 - Trask v. Butler’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
2 district · 86 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently October 2023 · most notably Jones v. Allstate Ins. Co. (2002), Leyba v. Whitley (1995)
2 district · 86 state decisions — followed in 14 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 92 Ill. 2d 13 - Pelham v. Griesheimer · 119 Wash. 2d 251 - Hizey v. Carpenter · 132 Ill. 2d 507 - In Re Gerard · 114 Wash. 2d 842 - Mason v. Mortgage America, Inc. · 119 Wash. 2d 357 - Bohn v. Cody
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he extent to which the transaction was intended to benefit the plaintiff.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Parks v. Fink · Rhode v. Adams“(1) the estate and its beneficiaries are incidental, not intended, beneficiaries of that attorney-personal representative relationship; (2) the estate heirs may bring a direct cause of action against the personal representative for breach of fiduciary duty; and (3) the unresolvable conflict of interest an estate attorney encounters in deciding whether to represent the personal representative, the estate, or the estate heirs unduly burdens the legal profession.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“The multifactor balancing test also requires that we evaluate public policy before finding a duty to a third party. 1 Ronald E. Mallen & Jeffrey M. Smith, Legal Malpractice § 7.9 (3d ed.1989). The policy considerations against finding a duty to a nonclient are the strongest where doing so would detract from the attorney's ethical obligations to the client. 1 Mallen & Smith § 7.11. This occurs where a duty to a nonclient creates a risk of divided loyalties because of a conflicting interest or of a breach of confidence. 1 Mallen & Smith § 7.11.”
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.