55 Wash. 2d 797 - Foote v. Grant’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently January 2011
10 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 MacPherson v. . Buick Motor Co. · Allied American Mutual Fire Insurance v. Commissioner of Motor Vehicles · Opinion of the Justices to the Senate & the House of Representatives · Southern Cotton Oil Co. v. Anderson · Lynch v. Walker
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that if Wernegreen [the deviating driver] had his own choice of routes to Seattle, despite the specific designation in his agreement [of employment], there might have been a justification of his choice of the much longer coast route ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“returned to his point of departure from the business route, or at least to the general area where his business duties might have brought him if he had not deviated.”
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.