4 Wash. App. 705 - Collins v. Boeing Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently April 2000
14 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 54 Wash. 2d 570 - Thorndike v. Hesperian Orchards, Inc. · 62 Wash. 2d 561 - Ferree v. Doric Co. · 74 Wash. 2d 600 - In Re Elliott · 2 Wash. App. 348 - McCutcheon v. Brownfield · 62 Wash. 2d 777 - Potts v. Amis
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he subject matter’s amenability to control, steps taken to effect control, the existence of power over the subject matter, the existence of power to exclude others from control, and the intention with which the acts in relation to the subject matter are performed.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“The employee knows the condition of the plant, e.g., absence of receptacles or chains, and does have a say as to whether he will expose himself to the risk of theft caused by the condition of the plant. He can both continue his employment and yet choose whether or not to take his tools with him, and thus avoid their theft. The risk is an avoidable one. If to serve his own convenience he chooses to leave the tools at the plant, he must be deemed to do so in light of the generally recognized principle that there can be no recovery for reasonably avoidable harm, whether to person or property.”
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.