2 Wash. App. 348 - McCutcheon v. Brownfield’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably Hieble v. Hieble (1972), 93 Wash. 2d 881 - Liebergesell v. Evans (1980)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 57 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 54 Wash. 2d 570 - Thorndike v. Hesperian Orchards, Inc. · 62 Wash. 2d 561 - Ferree v. Doric Co. · 56 Wash. 2d 449 - Obde v. Schlemeyer · 52 Wash. 2d 33 - Windust v. Department of Labor & Industries · 74 Wash. 2d 50 - Corinthian Corp. v. White & Bollard, 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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A confidential relationship exists between two persons when one has gained the confidence of the other and purports to act or advise with the other’s interest in mind. A confidential relation is particularly likely to exist where there is a family relationship. . . .” Parentage alone does not necessarily create a confidential relationship between parent and child. There must be something more. However, the fact of parentage frequently furnishes the occasion for the existence of a confidential relationship.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] confidential or fiduciary relationship between two persons may exist either because of the nature of the relationship between the parties historically considered fiduciary in character; e.g., trustee and beneficiary, principal and agent, partner and partner, husband and wife, physician and patient, attorney and client; or the confidential relationship between persons involved may exist in fact.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he parent may become dependent upon the child, either for support and maintenance, or for care or protection in business matters as well, or for both, and the child, by virtue of factors of personality and superior knowledge and the assumption of the role of adviser accepted by the parent, may acquire a status, vis-a-vis the parent, that will bring about the confidential relationship.”
2 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.