46 Wash. App. 480 - Vasquez v. Markin’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently October 2024
20 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 Texas v. Certain Named & Unnamed Undocumented Alien Children · Hoffa v. United States · 41 Wash. App. 495 - Byerly v. Madsen · 101 Wash. 2d 591 - State v. Allery · 102 Wash. 2d 68 - Davis v. Globe MacHine Manufacturing 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A physician or surgeon is not to be judged in light of any after-acquired knowledge in relation to the case, and the question of whether or not he exercised reasonable care and skill, as defined in these instructions, is to be determined by reference to what is known in relation to the case at the time of treatment or examination, and must be determined by reference to the pertinent facts then in existence of which he knew, or in the exercise of reasonable care, should have known.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(a) Hearing Matters Considered. By order, or on the motion of any party, the court may in its discretion direct the attorneys for the parties to appear before it for a conference to consider:”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[i]n Washington negligence is not a matter to be judged after the occurrence; thus, '”
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.