75 Wash. App. 201 - Shepard v. Mielke’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably Niece v. Elmview Group Home (1997), Niece v. Elmview Group Home (1997)
32 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 100 Wash. 2d 421 - Petersen v. State · 118 Wash. 2d 476 - Hansen v. Friend · 42 Wash. 2d 316 - McLeod v. Grant County School District No. 128 · 116 Wash. 2d 217 - Hutchins v. 1001 Fourth Avenue Associates · 4 Wash. App. 14 - Hunt v. King County
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Ms. Shepard could not lock her door, screen visitors, or generally provide for her own safety. She was in Manor Care precisely because she was unable to perform these tasks for herself. Manor Care, like other nursing homes, holds itself out to the public as willing and able to provide these services, for a fee.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`are so highly extraordinary or improbable as to be wholly beyond the range of expectability.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] nursing home's function is `to provide care for those who are unable because of physical or mental impairment to provide care for themselves.'”
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.