57 Wash. 2d 317 - Bennett v. McCready’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
November 2007
most recently cited
3 state decisions
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“DUTY OF ONE CONFRONTED BY AN EMERGENCY A person who is suddenly confronted by an emergency through no negligence of his or her own and who is compelled to decide instantly how to avoid injury and who makes such a choice as a reasonably careful person placed in such a position might make, is not negligent even though it is not the wisest choice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kappelman v. Lutz
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