39 Wash. 2d 934 - Simpson v. Doe’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Ware v. Evangelical Baptist Benevolent & Missionary Society · Wessner v. Blue Ridge Transportation Co. · Viles v. Thunborg · Hayden v. Colville Valley National Bank · Burdeaux v. Montgomery Ward & Co.
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“You are instructed that where there is no reason to anticipate a hazard, reasonable care does not require one who is walking in a place provided for the purpose to keep his eyes riveted to the floor immediately in front of his feet.”
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.