72 Wash. 2d 103 - Vanderhoff v. Fitzgerald’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
2 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently June 2021
2 district · 19 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 41 Wash. 2d 775 - Miller v. Cody · 68 Wash. 2d 726 - Felder v. City of Tacoma · 67 Wash. 2d 903 - Izett v. Walker · 36 Wash. 2d 349 - Tackett v. Milburn · 64 Wash. 2d 350 - Rickert v. Geppert
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] prima facie showing of negligence[, which] may be overcome by evidence that some emergency or unusual condition not caused or contributed to by the following driver caused the collision, in which event the liability of the following driver becomes a jury question.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Where two cars are traveling in the same direction, the primary duty of avoiding a collision rests with the following driver. In the absence of an emergency or unusual conditions, he is negligent if he runs into the car ahead. . . . The following driver is not necessarily excused even in the event of an emergency, for it is his duty to keep such distance from the car ahead and maintain such observation of that car that an emergency stop may be safely made.”
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.