65 Wash. App. 255 - Thomas v. Wilfac, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably Stiley v. Block (1996), Microsoft Corp. v. Manning (1995)
3 federal appellate · 44 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 Eli Lilly & Co. v. Medtronic, Inc. · 105 Wash. 2d 778 - Hangman Ridge Training Stables, Inc. v. Safeco Title Insurance · 100 Wash. 2d 421 - Petersen v. State · 114 Wash. 2d 907 - Industrial Indem. Co. of Northwest, Inc. v. Kallevig · 109 Wash. 2d 235 - Lockwood v. a C & S, Inc.
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A failure to diagnose a condition ... is a matter of medical negligence. We decline to create a second or alternate cause of action on informed nonconsent to a diagnostic procedure predicated on the same facts necessary to establish a claim of medical negligence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“physician is not liable for an error of judgment if, in arriving at that judgment, the physician exercised reasonable care and skill within the standard of care ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“requires disclosure of material facts relating to treatment, not disclosure of a physician's qualifications.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Housel v. James
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.