7 Wash. App. 390 - Jones v. Widing’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently August 2001
6 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 56 Wash. 2d 564 - Owens v. Kuro · 67 Wash. 2d 322 - Nist v. Tudor · 80 Wash. 2d 161 - Derheim v. N. Fiorito Co. · 72 Wash. 2d 93 - Niven v. MacDonald · 77 Wash. 2d 329 - Poston v. Mathers
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“gross or great negligence, that is, negligence substantially and appreciably greater than ordinary negligence. Its correlative, failure to exercise slight care, means not the total absence of care but care substantially or appreciably less than the quantum of care inhering in ordinary negligence.”
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.