76 Wash. 2d 265 - Rikstad v. Holmberg’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 78 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably 84 Wash. 2d 239 - King v. City of Seattle (1974), 101 Wash. 2d 226 - Pedroza v. Bryant (1984)
2 federal appellate · 78 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 42 Wash. 2d 316 - McLeod v. Grant County School District No. 128 · 4 Wash. 2d 309 - Berglund v. Spokane County · 73 Wash. 2d 814 - O'DONOGHUE v. Riggs · 45 Wash. 2d 477 - Fleming v. City of Seattle · 64 Wash. 2d 177 - Mason v. Bon Marche Corp.
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`there was a sufficiently close, actual, causal connection between defendant's conduct and the actual damage suffered by plaintiff.'”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“`[t]he hazard that brought about ... the result must be among the hazards to be perceived reasonably and with respect to which defendant's conduct was negligent.'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“is within the ambit of the hazards covered by the duty imposed upon defendant.”
5 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.