55 Wash. 2d 58 - Chase v. Beard’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently November 2007 · most notably 100 Wash. 2d 729 - In Re the Marriage of Brown (1984), 66 Wash. 2d 469 - Golden Gate Hop Ranch, Inc. v. Velsicol Chemical Corp. (1965)
48 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 Schramm v. Steele · Hawkins v. Front Street Cable Railway Co. · Palmer Brick Co. v. Chenall · Staats v. Pioneer Insurance · Garland v. Furst Store
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... All facts are admissible in evidence which afford reasonable inferences or throw any light upon the contested matter. Relevancy means the logical relation between proposed evidence and the fact to be established. ...”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[kjnowledge by the agent of facts relating to the agency is deemed knowledge by the principal.”
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.