Schuchman v. Hoehn’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 state decisions

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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “If injury results to a worker from the deliberate intention of his or her employer to produce such injury, the worker or beneficiary of the worker shall have the privilege to take under this title and also have cause of action against the employer as if this title had not been enacted, for any damages in excess of compensation and benefits paid or payable under this title.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 139 Wash. App. 231 - Garibay v. Advanced Silicon Materials, Inc. · Garibay v. ADVANCED SILICON MATERIALS, INC.

2. “Although Ms. Hoehn reportedly admitted that she and her husband "knew this was going to happen" but just did not know when, this admission does not show actual knowledge that Mallory was certain to be the injured party. ... [A]n employer acting with even a substantial certainty that injury will occur to the employee does not have the requisite intent to injure that triggers the RCW 51.24.020 exception to employer immunity.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Valencia v. Reardan-Edwall Sch. Dist. No. 1

3. “`We knew this was going to happen, we just didn't know when. We just didn't know how to fix it.... Leon has fixed it now with a mesh like web covering.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Valencia v. Reardan-Edwall Sch. Dist. No. 1