47 Wash. App. 488 - State v. Brobak’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently June 2021
7 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 101 Wash. 2d 591 - State v. Allery · 100 Wash. 2d 706 - State v. Judge · 72 Wash. 2d 760 - State v. Eike · 32 Wash. App. 217 - State v. Gibson · 43 Wash. App. 787 - State v. Giedd
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The term 'proximate cause' means a cause which, in a direct sequence, unbroken by any new independent cause, produced the injury, and without which the injury would not have happened.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) permit a party to argue his theory of the case; (2) not be misleading; and, (3) when read as a whole, properly inform the trier of fact on the law.”
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.