3 Wash. App. 673 - McGlothlin v. Cole’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
April 2004
most recently cited
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 72 Wash. 2d 93 - Niven v. MacDonald · 1 Wash. App. 935 - Hurst v. Struthers · 2 Wash. App. 92 - Rae v. Konopaski
Most-quoted passages
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“[T]he jury should have been instructed in the alternative as to the duties imposed under RCW 46.61.305(1) and Niven , and as it was in this case, the duties imposed under the following-car doctrine. The left-turning driver should be held negligent as a matter of law only when reasonable minds cannot differ on the proposition that had the left-turning driver looked for possible traffic in the passing lane immediately before starting the left turn across it, he would have seen the passing car which necessarily was in that lane before the driver started the left turn.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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