38 Wash. 2d 341 - Shay v. Parkhurst’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
2 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 1978
2 district · 8 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 Morales v. Employers' Liability Assur. Corp. · Auerbach v. Webb · McCormick v. Index Stages, Inc.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In respect of a child of tender years, it has been held or recognized that the primary duty of caring for such child is on the parents or their representative who has the immediate custody of such child, and that, where such child is in the care of his parent, the carrier, through its employees, has the right to rely on the presumption that the parent will take such care of the child as the natural love of the parent would prompt him or her to exercise under the circumstances.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Burnett v. Wilder““[T]he fact that the minor child is in a custodian’s charge does not absolve the carrier from liability, if the carrier’s employees know, or should know, that such child will be injured by certain acts of negligence on their part.””
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.