3 Wash. App. 916 - Jones v. Leon’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently April 1998
22 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 42 Wash. 2d 316 - McLeod v. Grant County School District No. 128 · 76 Wash. 2d 265 - Rikstad v. Holmberg · 4 Wash. 2d 309 - Berglund v. Spokane County · 77 Wash. 2d 800 - Wells v. City of Vancouver · 29 Wash. 2d 650 - Kellerher v. Porter
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as a matter of law that the criminal act of Bird was so highly extraordinary or improbable as to be wholly beyond the range of expectability, and that the result of that act is not within the ambit of hazards covered by the duty imposed upon respondents.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“This court, in common with courts of other jurisdictions, has accepted and adhered to the rule that the keeper of an establishment wherein intoxicating liquors are dispensed, while not. an insurer of the safety of his patrons, owes the duty to his patrons to exercise reasonable care and vigilance to protect them from reasonably foreseeable injury, mistreatment or annoyance at the hands of other patrons.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“whereupon Bird shot Jones. The plaintiff contended that because the police had been called sixty times in the two years preceding the incident, the defendant was under a duty to employ someone to prevent disreputable persons from entering. The court held”
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.