63 Wash. App. 272 - Whitchurch v. McBride’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently June 2012
20 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 103 Wash. 2d 768 - Hartley v. State · 98 Wash. 2d 460 - Harbeson v. Parke-Davis, Inc. · 97 Wash. 2d 929 - Bernethy v. Walt Failor's, Inc. · 84 Wash. 2d 975 - Maltman v. Sauer · 61 Wash. App. 280 - In Re the Dependency of C.B.
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a disfavored driver seeks to recover from a favored driver for damages suffered in an accident at an uncontrolled intersection, the evidence produced at trial will be sufficient to support a finding that the defendant's negligent conduct was a cause in fact ... only if it supports a reasonable inference as to approximately where the favored driver was when, in the exercise of reasonable care, he or she should have realized that the disfavored driver was not going to yield. At an uncontrolled intersection, the driver on the right has the right of way, and the driver on the left must yield. RCW 46.61.180(1). Each must still exercise reasonable care, RCW 5.40.050, Whisler v. Weiss, 26 Wash.2d 446, 459-60 , 174 P.2d 766 (1946) (favored driver); White v. Fenner, 16 Wash.2d 226, 235 , 133 P.2d 270 (1943) (same); Kilde v. Sorwak, 1 Wash.App. 742, 746 , 463 P.2d 265 , (disfavored driver), review denied, 77 Wash.2d 963 (1970), but whether each does is measured in light of all the circumstances, including whether a reasonable person in the position of one driver or the other would have expected to have the right of way.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Hough v. Ballard · Hough v. Ballard
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