22 Wash. 2d 708 - Ruff v. Fruit Delivery Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 1985
5 federal appellate · 9 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 O'Malley v. Eagan · Kennedy v. Opdenweyer · Neville v. State · Ritter v. Johnson · Skene v. Graham
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen the circumstances lend equal support to inconsistent conclusions or are equally consistent with contradictory hypotheses, the evidence will not be held sufficient to establish the asserted fact.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“is meant that character of evidence which would convince an unprejudiced thinking mind of the truth of the fact to which the evidence is directed.”
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.