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71 Wash. 2d 104 - Mehrer v. Easterling’s Empirical Analysis

1967

Citation profile

6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
August 1993
most recently cited

6 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 36 Wash. 2d 256 - Cook v. Seidenverg · 52 Wash. 2d 581 - Ward v. Arnold · 3 Wash. 2d 475 - Eckerson v. Ford's Prairie School District No. 11 · 47 Wash. 2d 599 - Qualls v. Golden Arrow Farms, Inc. · 55 Wash. 2d 687 - Woods v. Goodson

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.

  1. “Where such intervening act or force is not reasonably foreseeable, it must be regarded as a superseding cause negating the claim of proximate or legal cause.”
    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.