76 Wash. App. 863 - Beard v. King County’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably 87 Wash. App. 468 - Phillips v. King County (1997), Winbun v. Moore (2001)
1 federal appellate · 26 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 114 Wash. 2d 271 - Marincovich v. Tarabochia · 123 Wash. 2d 15 - Adcox v. Children's Orthopedic Hospital & Medical Center · 118 Wash. 2d 753 - Allen v. State · 75 Wash. 2d 660 - Ruth v. Dight · 118 Wash. 2d 737 - Hibbard v. Gordon, Thomas, Honeywell, Malanca & O'Hern
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] smoking gun is not necessary to commence the limitation period.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“The discovery rule provides that a cause of action does not accrue until an injured party knows, or in the exercise of due diligence should have discovered, the factual bases of the cause of action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Doe v. Finch“unconscionable result of barring an aggrieved party's right to recovery before a right to judicial relief even arises.”
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.