75 Wash. 2d 894 - Samuelson v. Freeman’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably 90 Wash. 2d 476 - Seattle School District No. 1 v. State (1978), 90 Wash. 2d 9 - Terhune v. A. H. Robins Co. (1978)
62 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 72 Wash. 2d 73 - Pederson v. Dumouchel · 75 Wash. 2d 660 - Ruth v. Dight · Hotelling v. Walther · 45 Wash. 2d 675 - Lindquist v. Mullen · 68 Wash. 2d 1 - Greene v. Rothschild
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f malpractice is claimed during a continuous and substantially uninterrupted course of treatment for a particular illness or condition, the statute does not begin to run until the treatment for that particular illness or condition has been terminated.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“When the instructions as a whole so repetitiously cover a point of law or the application of a rule as to grossly overweigh their total effect on one side and thereby generate an extreme emphasis in favor of one party to the explicit detriment of the other party, it is, we think, error—even though each instruction considered separately might be essentially correct. Thus, if the instructions on a given point or proposition are so repetitious and overlapping as to make them emphatically favorable to one party, the other party has been deprived of a fair trial.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“negligence in the examination, diagnosis, treatment and care, including negligent failure to diagnose and properly treat a bone infection”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Taylor v. Phillips
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.