46 Wash. App. 708 - Halvorsen v. Ferguson’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
6 district · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably 119 Wash. 2d 251 - Hizey v. Carpenter (1992), Sun Valley Potatoes, Inc. v. Rosholt, Robertson & Tucker (1999)
6 district · 40 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 Corallo v. United States · 13 Cal. 3d 349 - Smith v. Lewis · Estate of Neilson · 6 Cal. 3d 12 - Beam v. Bank of America · Rorrer v. Cooke
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]n attorney has a duty to exercise "that degree of care, skill, diligence and knowledge commonly possessed and exercised by a reasonable, careful and prudent lawyer in the practice of law in this jurisdiction." Cook, Flanagan & Berst v. Clausing, 73 Wn.2d 393, 395 , 438 P.2d 865 (1968).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“An appeal that is affirmed merely because the arguments are rejected is not frivolous.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ensley v. Mollmann · Kinney v. Cook“that he performed reasonable research in an effort to ascertain relevant legal principles and to make an informed decision as to a course of conduct based upon an intelligent assessment of the problem.”
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.