63 Wash. 2d 236 - Graving v. Dorn’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently November 2018
16 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 Burlie v. Stephens · Steele v. Northern Pacific Railway Co. · Roth v. Union Depot Co. · Akin v. Bradley Engineering & Machinery Co. · Von Saxe v. Barnett
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We decide nothing here, except that under six there is a conclusive presumption that a child cannot be contribu-torially negligent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[A] boy of appellant's age [11] and experience presents a question of fact as to his capacity for contributory negligence.”
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.