52 Wash. 2d 662 - Snowflake Laundry Co. v. MacDowell’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently July 1994
11 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.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * Plaintiff has simply alleged two remedies and has claimed both. If defendants thought the remedies -inconsistent, they should have moved that plaintiff be required to elect. The law gives them no right to make the election in behalf of plaintiff. * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“One who has sustained damage, by reason of the act of another, must use reasonable efforts to minimize his damages.”
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.