51 Wash. 2d 73 - Patterson v. Krogh’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
May 1974
most recently cited
3 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Mosso v. E. H. Stanton Co. · Leftridge v. City of Seattle · Brammer v. Lappenbusch · Burge v. Anderson · Chapin v. Stickel
Most-quoted passages
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“Thus we have two different situations to which the last clear chance rule applies. In the one, the plaintiff’s negligence may continue up to the time of the injury if the defendant actually sees the peril; in the second, the plaintiff’s negligence must have terminated if the defendant did not actually see the peril, but by the exercise of reasonable care should have seen it. This rule, as we have said, has been somewhat confused by later decisions which have failed to recognize the distinction between situations where the defendant actually saw and situations where, by the exercise of reasonable care, the defendant should have seen the position of the plaintiff.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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