25 Wash. App. 560 - Teeter v. Lawson’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently July 2012
24 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 92 Wash. 2d 507 - Ohler v. Tacoma General Hospital · 75 Wash. 2d 660 - Ruth v. Dight · 82 Wash. 2d 694 - Knowles v. Holly · 45 Wash. 2d 675 - Lindquist v. Mullen · 89 Wash. 2d 394 - Jepson v. Department of Labor & Industries
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The 1971 statute was significantly different from the previous statute of limitations and our interpretation of that statute. The concept of the accrual of a cause of action contained in the general statute of limitations was eliminated. In its place is language that any action shall commence within 1 year of the time plaintiff discovers the injury or condition was caused by the wrongful act.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“three years from the date of the alleged wrongful act”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“discovered or reasonably should have discovered”
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.