73 Wash. App. 492 - Bratton v. Calkins’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Niece v. Elmview Group Home (1997), Snyder v. Medical Service Corp. (2001)
27 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on 48 Cal. 3d 438 - John R. v. Oakland Unified School District · Johnston v. Long · Simmons v. United States · 105 Wash. 2d 457 - Dickinson v. Edwards · Rita M. v. Roman Catholic Archbishop
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[O]ur imposition of vicarious liability on the school district would be "far-reaching and . . . would rearrange, across the state, the responsibility of employers for the conduct of their employees.” . . . Any needed redirection of social policy is more appropriately the function of the Legislature.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“When an employee's intentionally tortious or criminal acts are not in furtherance of the employer's business, the employer is not liable as a matter of law, even if the employment situation provided the opportunity or means for the employee's wrongful acts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Any needed redirection of social policy is more appropriately the function of the legislature.”
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.