Rhode v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently April 2025
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 Friedman v. Dozorc · Norton v. Hines · 123 Wash. 2d 835 - Trask v. Butler · Carlson v. Morton · 104 Wash. 2d 181 - Bowman v. John Doe
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 multi-factor balancing test, such as that set out in [ Trask v. Butler, 872 P.2d 1080, 1083 (Wash. 1994)], may be effective when used to address the duties of attorneys in transactional matters or estate planning and probate practice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“if an attorney owes the same duty of care to both the parent and the children, he or she will be able to serve neither effectively.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether an attorney owes a duty to third persons to exercise care in the performance of services for his or her client,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.