51 Wash. App. 861 - Supanchick v. Pfaff’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 99 Wash. 2d 582 - Bender v. City of Seattle · 12 Wash. App. 500 - Ryan v. Westgard · 41 Wash. 2d 775 - Miller v. Cody · 62 Wash. 2d 420 - Cameron v. Boone · 68 Wash. 2d 726 - Felder v. City of Tacoma
Most-quoted passages
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“Where two cars are traveling in the same direction, the primary duty of avoiding a collision rests with the following driver. In the absence of an emergency or unusual conditions, he is negligent if he runs into the car ahead. Tackett v. Milburn, 36 Wn. (2d) 349, 218 P. (2d) 298 [1950]. The following driver is not necessarily excused even in the event of an emergency, for it is his duty to keep such distance from the car ahead and maintain such observation of that car that an emergency stop may be safely made. Ritter v. Johnson, 163 Wash. 153 , 300 Pac. 518 , 79 A. L. R. 1270 [1931]; Larpenteur v. Eldridge Motors Inc., 185 Wash. 530 , 55 P. (2d) 1064 [1936]; Cronin v. Shell Oil Co., 8 Wn. (2d) 404, 112 P. (2d) 824 [1941],”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The driver of a motor vehicle shall not follow another vehicle more closely than is reasonable and prudent, having due regard for the speed of such vehicles and the traffic upon and the condition of the highway.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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