59 Wash. App. 92 - Richardson v. Denend’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently May 2014 · most notably 118 Wash. 2d 753 - Allen v. State (1992), Hughes v. Mahaney & Higgins (1992)
42 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 Griffin v. United States · 103 Wash. 2d 768 - Hartley v. State · Gregg v. Rahm · 92 Wash. 2d 507 - Ohler v. Tacoma General Hospital · 107 Wash. 2d 761 - Reichelt v. Johns-Manville Corp.
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he discovery rule merely tolls the running of the statute of limitations until the plaintiff has knowledge of the `facts' which give rise to the cause of action; it does not require knowledge of the existence of a legal cause of action itself.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Were we to conclude otherwise and adopt the position urged by Richardson [the client], we would be ruling that the statute of limitations is tolled until such time as a dissatisfied client obtains other legal counsel or engages in independent legal research to determine the propriety of the actions of his or her former counsel.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“discovers, or in the exercise of reasonable diligence should have discovered the facts which give rise to his or her cause of action.”
2 later decisions 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.