74 Wash. 2d 945 - Wilson v. Lund’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently December 2014
17 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 63 Wash. 2d 664 - Lenci v. City of Seattle · Hedrick v. Ilwaco Railway & Navigation Co. · 61 Wash. 2d 319 - Gray v. Goodson · 71 Wash. 2d 112 - Lockhart v. Besel · Atkeson v. Jackson Estate
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A father, or in case of the death or desertion of his family, the mother may maintain an action as plaintiff for the injury or death of a child, and a guardian for the injury or death of his ward.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“damages may be recovered for the loss of love and companionship of the child and for injury to or destruction of the parent-child relationship ...”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“for the injury or death of a minor child, or a child on whom either [parent] is dependent for support ...”
2 later decisions 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.