16 Wash. App. 748 - Van Cleve v. Betts’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently December 2010
19 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 Beck v. Dye · McQuillan v. City of Seattle · 85 Wash. 2d 911 - Shelby v. Keck · 65 Wash. 2d 421 - Baxter v. Greyhound Corp. · Estill v. Berry
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.
“[A] trial court may direct a verdict on questions of negligence in only two classes of cases: (1) where the circumstances of the case are such that the standard of care is the same under all circumstances and its measure is defined by law; and (2) where the facts are undisputed and only one reasonable inference can be drawn therefrom.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“No pedestrian shall suddenly leave a curb or other place of safety and walk, run, or otherwise move into the path of a vehicle which is so close that it is impossible for the driver to stop.”
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.