71 Wash. 2d 438 - Impero v. Whatcom County’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently September 1994
12 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 60 Wash. 2d 122 - DeHeer v. Seattle Post-Intelligencer · 63 Wash. 2d 879 - Hartman v. Port of Seattle · 57 Wash. 2d 619 - Riblet v. Ideal Cement Co. · 18 Wash. 2d 397 - Caron v. Grays Harbor County · 69 Wash. 2d 497 - Vogel v. Alaska Steamship Co.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The . . . procedure is a summary and a final one, and the power of the trial court in this connection should be exercised sparingly, with great caution, and never without a fair opportunity for plaintiff’s counsel to explain and qualify his opening statement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“reasonably prudent person of ordinary intelligence would exercise under like or similar 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.