124 Wash. 2d 435 - Evans v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently May 2018
22 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 104 Wash. 2d 710 - Stenberg v. Pacific Power & Light Co. · 22 Wash. App. 163 - Peterick v. State · 120 Wis. 2d 344 - Schweiner v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. · 116 Wash. 2d 749 - DuVon v. Rockwell International · 105 Wash. 2d 217 - Corr v. Willamette Industries, Inc.
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is held with virtual unanimity that an employer cannot be sued as the owner or occupier of land.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The purpose of the exclusive remedy provision of the workers’ compensation law is to give immunity to the employer and coemployees acting in the scope and course of their employment. Its purpose is not to create artificial immunity to one whose only connection with the corporate employer’s business is having his or her name on a piece of paper as an officer and/or director. To provide immunity as a matter of law denies the right of a third party action against the person actually responsible for the injury or death. That would frustrate the direction of the Legislature that the Department be reimbursed from proceeds of such third party action.[ 28 ]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“If a third person, not in a worker’s same employ, is or may become liable to pay damages on account of a worker’s injury for which benefits and compensation are provided under this title, the injured worker or beneficiary may elect to seek damages from the third person.”
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.