68 Wash. 2d 771 - Bunnell v. Barr’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 2016
15 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 63 Wash. 2d 252 - Davis v. Early Construction Co. · Mouso v. Bellingham & Northern Railway Co. · 65 Wash. 2d 290 - Knecht v. Marzano · 47 Wash. 2d 139 - DeKoning v. Williams · 22 Wash. 2d 708 - Ruff v. Fruit Delivery Co.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is the province of the jury to weigh the evidence, under proper instructions, and determine the facts. It is the province of the jury to believe, or disbelieve, any witness whose testimony it is called upon to consider. If there is substantial evidence (as distinguished from a scintilla) on both sides of an issue, what the trial court believes after hearing the testimony, and what this court believes after reading the record, is immaterial. The finding of the jury, upon substantial, conflicting evidence properly submitted to it, is final.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“This rule, however, does not apply when the physical facts in evidence go no further than to simply cast doubt upon the credibility of a witness or a party. On the contrary, to properly apply the rule, the physical facts in evidence must not only be undisputed, they must also be consistent with each other and, when taken together, be manifestly irreconcilable with the countervailing oral testimony. In short, the established and undisputed physical facts must be such as to irresistibly lead reasonable minds to but a single conclusion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“where the physical facts are uncontroverted and speak with a force that overcomes all testimony to the contrary, reasonable minds must follow the physical facts ...”
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.