46 Wash. 2d 197 - Garratt v. Dailey’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently May 2014 · most notably 104 Wash. 2d 677 - Bradley v. American Smelting and Refining Co. (1985), 125 Wash. 2d 456 - Price v. Kitsap Transit (1994)
3 federal appellate · 37 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Mercer v. Corbin · Vosburg v. Putney · State v. Lyon · Briese v. Maechtle · Paul v. Hummel
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is not enough that the act itself is intentionally done and this, even though the actor realizes or should realize that it contains a very grave risk of bringing about the [harm]. Such realization may make the actor’s conduct negligent or even reckless but unless he realizes that to a substantial certainty, the [harm] will result, the actor has not that intention which is necessary to make him liable....”
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.