61 Wash. App. 562 - Cunningham v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably Jarosz v. Palmer (2002), State v. Barnes (1997)
3 federal appellate · 13 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 2680
Relies on International Ass'n of Machinists v. Duckworth · 103 Wash. 2d 768 - Hartley v. State · Gregory v. United States Government · 108 Wash. 2d 299 - McDaniels v. Carlson · 83 Wash. 2d 491 - Morris v. McNicol
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There are two elements to proximate cause: cause in fact and legal causation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“consequences of an act — the physical connection between an act and an injury. Legal cause is grounded in policy determinations as to how far the consequences of a defendant's acts should extend. The focus is whether, as a matter of policy, the connection between the ultimate result and the act of the defendant is too remote or insubstantial to impose liability. Legal cause”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“involves a determination of whether liability should attach as a matter of law given the existence of cause in fact”
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.