70 Wash. 2d 45 - Browning v. Ward’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently March 2000
22 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 62 Wash. 2d 136 - Helman v. Sacred Heart Hospital · 60 Wash. 2d 310 - Siragusa v. Swedish Hospital · McGrady v. Brink · 64 Wash. 2d 144 - Glazer v. Adams · Hull v. Davenport
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a condition precedent for such a determination is a conclusion that reasonable minds could not have differed in their interpretation of the factual pattern.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“The time has now come ... to state unqualifiedly that an employer has a duty to his employees to exercise reasonable care to furnish them with a reasonably safe place to work. We now hold that if an employer negligently fails in this duty, he may not assert, as a defense to an action based upon such a breach of duty, that the injured employee is barred from recovery merely because he was aware or should have known of the dangerous condition negligently created or maintained. However, if the employee’s voluntary exposure to the risk is unreasonable under the circumstances, he will be barred from recovery because of his contributory negligence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The crucial question is not whether the plaintiff’s equal or superior knowledge would mean she was contributorily negligent, but whether reasonable minds would differ as to whether or not the plaintiff’s conduct was unreasonable in the circumstances.”
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.