34 Wash. 2d 591 - Lucas v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently December 2009
17 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 Lyle v. Fiorito · Neel v. King County · Wessels v. Stevens County · Tyler v. Pierce County · Gray v. King County
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“use such care as would keep [the bridge] in a reasonably safe condition for those who might go upon it”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the situation is inherently dangerous or of such a character as to mislead a traveler exercising reasonable care.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“an imponderable burden upon the various counties throughout the state which maintain many bridges of this type.”
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.