7 Wash. 2d 341 - Wright v. Safeway Stores, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently October 2015
21 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 Bleecker v. . Johnston · Rosenstrom v. North Bend Stage Line · Estill v. Berry · Glasgow v. Nicholls · Fulsom-Morris Coal & Mining Co. v. Mitchell
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where evidence which would probably be part of a case is within the control of the party whose interest it would naturally be to produce it, and, without satisfactory explanation, he fails to do so, the jury may draw an inference that it would be unfavorable to him.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“In not every case where a party to an action has failed to produce a witness or witnesses under his control, who could have testified to material facts favorable to such party, and has failed to explain his failure so to do, can it be inferred that the testimony of such witness or witnesses, if produced, would have been unfavorable to such party, but a court or jury may draw such inference only when under all the circumstances of the case the failure to produce such witness or witnesses, unexplained, creates a suspicion that the failure to produce was a willful attempt to withhold competent testimony.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The presumption arising from a failure to call a witness applies only to witnesses . . . whose testimony would not be trivial, or to be classed as merely cumulative, but important and necessary."”
2 later decisions 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.