Swan v. Lamb’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently February 2020
11 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 72 Wash. 2d 73 - Pederson v. Dumouchel · Kronke v. Danielson · 10 Utah 2d 40 - Marsh v. Pemberton · Naccarato v. Grob · Baird v. National Health Foundation
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“but a specialized application of the standard of conduct so universally imposed by the law: of requiring the degree of care which the ordinary, reasonable and prudent person would observe under the same or similar circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jenkins v. Parrish
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.