57 Wash. 2d 302 - Torrez v. Peck’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
2
states following
July 2003
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Ritter v. Johnson · Larpenteur v. Eldridge Motors, Inc.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The following driver is not necessarily excused even in the event of an emergency, for it is his duty to keep such distance from the car ahead and maintain such observation of that car that an emergency stop may be safely made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Blaak v. Davidson
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.