52 Wash. App. 298 - State v. Neher’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently January 2014
15 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 102 Wash. 2d 348 - State v. Calderon · 109 Wash. 2d 29 - State v. Stannard · 98 Wash. 2d 725 - State v. Keller · 94 Wash. 2d 594 - In Re the Marriage of Timmons · 79 Wash. 2d 469 - State v. Engstrom
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 15 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. There may be more than one proximate cause of an injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The rules of grammar ... provide that the definite article, `the', is used `before nouns of which there is only one or which are considered as one.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[I]t is not necessary that defendant's act should have been the sole cause of the harm[;] ... a contributory cause is sufficient.”
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.