13 Wash. App. 48 - Martin v. Schoonover’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently November 2018
15 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 75 Wash. 2d 522 - Ulmer v. Ford Motor Co. · 3 Wash. App. 508 - Palmer v. Massey-Ferguson, Inc. · Higgins v. L.A. Gas & Electric Co. · Peters v. Lyons · 10 Wis. 2d 323 - Betehia v. Cape Cod Corp.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he more the [seller] takes an active part in preparing the product for final use and takes the role of a manufacturer or assembler, the more likely he can be found liable in negligence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(a) the offer of sale of the product by a retailer, (b) a duty of care in the retailer, (c) a failure by act or omission to perform the duty, (d) an injury occurring from use of the product and (e) a proximate cause of the injury was a failure to perform the duty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A duty to warn arises when the supplier 'knows or has reason to know that the chattel is or is likely to be dangerous for the use for which it is supplied'.”
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.