76 Wash. 2d 474 - Bennett v. Messick’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently March 2008 · most notably Bachran v. Morishige (1970), Becker v. D & E DISTRIBUTING CO. (1976)
31 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 Buss v. Wachsmith · 51 Wash. 2d 18 - Greenwood v. the Olympic, Inc. · Flagg v. Vander Yacht · 41 Wash. 2d 550 - Reeder v. Sears, Roebuck & Co. · 71 Wash. 2d 603 - Bellah v. Brown
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * The Washington rule as to the fellow-servant doctrine * * * is that the defense is not available to an employer if the servant, whose negligence caused the injury, had the exclusive control of the instrumentality by which the injury was inflicted.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Lopez v. Allen · Garcia v. Brulotte
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.