Adams v. Leidholdt’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
1 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 2003
1 district · 14 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 73 Wash. 2d 476 - Douglas v. Bussabarger · Nettrour v. JC Penney Company · Hilzer v. MacDonald · St. Luke's Hospital v. Schmaltz · Weiss v. Axler
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.
“not liable for failure of the hospital employees to execute reasonable post-operative procedures for the treatment of his patients, and he may assume that the hospital's employees are competent to follow reasonable orders unless he has knowledge to the contrary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Alger v. Pifer“aware of [the] injury and knew or should have known that any alleged negligence occurred on or before the date of that injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Liscio v. Pinson“any legal theory in support of the trial court's judgment”
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.