7 Wash. App. 745 - Foster v. Bylund’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently September 1999
5 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 64 Wash. 2d 570 - Ward v. Zeugner · 55 Wash. 2d 639 - Stoneman v. Wick Construction Co. · 74 Wash. 2d 283 - Ferrin v. Donnellefeld · 2 Wash. App. 437 - Leach v. Weiss · 53 Wash. 2d 515 - Guerin v. Thompson
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The court can determine negligence, as a matter of law, when (1) the standard of care fixed is thé same under all circumstances, and its measure is defined by law, and (2) where the facts are undisputed and there is but one reasonable inference therefrom.”
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.