65 Wash. App. 71 - Orwick v. Fox’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably Dewey v. Tacoma School Dist. No. 10 (1999), Rodriguez v. Loudeye Corp. (2008)
31 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Youngberg v. Romeo Ex Rel. Romeo · Graham v. Commissioner · 112 Wash. 2d 216 - Young v. Key Pharmaceuticals, 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.’ ” 5 Orwick v. Fox, 65 Wn. App. 71, 83, 828 P.2d 12 (quoting Harlow v. Fitzgerald, 457 U.S. 800, 818 , 73 L. Ed. 2d 396 , 102 S. Ct. 2727 (1982)), review denied, 120 Wn.2d 1014 (1992); Gurno v. LaConner, 65 Wn. App. 218, 227 , 828 P.2d 49 , review denied, 119 Wn.2d 1019 (1992).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`[a]n employer and its employees are jointly and severally liable for the negligent acts of the employee in the scope of employment, and one damaged by such acts can sue both the employer and the employee or either separately.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ensley v. Pitcher“Because qualified immunity entitles a government official to immunity from suit rather than a mere defense to liability, it is essential that `insubstantial claims' be resolved as quickly as possible.”
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.