73 Wash. App. 107 - Shows v. Pemberton’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 2018
16 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 98 Wash. 2d 434 - Wilson v. Steinbach · Shaw v. Barr · Hill v. Lockhart · 112 Wash. 2d 216 - Young v. Key Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · 118 Wash. 2d 383 - Safeco Insurance Co. of America v. Butler
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The general rule is that, while an insurer may be estopped, by its conduct or its knowledge or by statute, from insisting upon a forfeiture of a policy, yet under no conditions can the coverage or restrictions on the coverage he extended by the doctrine of waiver or estoppel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he special relationship could be shown by a three-part test: (1) a longstanding relationship; (2) some type of interaction on the question of coverage; and (3) the insured's reliance on the expertise of the insurance agent to the insured's detriment”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“an agent holds himself out as an insurance specialist and receives compensation for consultation and advice apart from the premiums paid by the insured.”
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.