5 Wash. App. 77 - Sadler v. Wagner’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently January 2013
6 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 29 Wash. 2d 650 - Kellerher v. Porter · 77 Wash. 2d 329 - Poston v. Mathers · 55 Wash. 2d 25 - Clevenger v. Fonseca · 72 Wash. 2d 636 - Zahn v. Arbelo · 72 Wash. 2d 1 - Petersavage v. Bock
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`Present cash value' as used in these instructions means the sum of money needed now, which, when added to what that sum may reasonably be expected to earn in the future, will equal the amount of the loss at the time in the future when the expenses must be paid or the earnings would have been received. "The rate of interest to be applied by you in making this determination would be that rate which in your judgment is reasonable under all the circumstances taking into consideration the prevailing rates of interest in the area which can reasonably be expected from safe investments which a person of ordinary prudence, but without particular financial experience or skill, can make in this locality.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Present cash value' as used in these instructions means the sum of money needed now, which, when added to what that sum may reasonably be expected to earn in the future, will equal the amount of the loss at the time in the future when the expenses must be paid or the earnings would have been received.”
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.