29 Wash. 2d 263 - McHenry v. Short’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently January 2010
15 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 · Bergman v. State · Walters v. Spokane International Railway Co. · Riggs v. Northern Pacific Railway Co. · Werker v. Knox
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It may be true that the actual assault was the result of Short’s charge that McHenry had been spreading lies about him, and McHenry’s response that everything he had said concerning Short was the truth. However, the altercation was one continuous affair from the time Short approached McHenry, accused him of trespassing, and demanded the surrender of the key, until finally he struck the blows which caused the death. Under these circumstances, we do not think it would be correct to say that he had wholly shed his character as agent of the community, and was then proceeding upon a misdeed for which he alone was chargeable.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“it has become the settled law of this state that, if the tortious act of the husband be committed in the management of community property or for the benefit of the marital community, such community is thereby rendered liable for the act, under the doctrine of respondeat superior.”
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.