79 Wash. 2d 864 - James v. Robeck’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably 122 Wash. 2d 299 - Washington State Physicians Insurance Exchange & Ass'n v. Fisons Corp. (1993), 120 Wash. 2d 246 - Washburn v. Beatt Equipment Co. (1992)
52 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 70 Wash. 2d 173 - Cox v. Charles Wright Academy, Inc. · 68 Wash. 2d 216 - Lyster v. Metzger · 62 Wash. 2d 732 - Malstrom v. Kalland · 62 Wash. 2d 840 - Coleman v. George · 59 Wash. 2d 302 - Martin v. Foss Launch & Tug Co.
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“be of such manifest clarity as to make it unmistakable.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“To the jury is consigned under the constitution the ultimate power to weigh the evidence and determine the facts and the amount of damages in a particular case is an ultimate fact.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“As to the other factors from which the idea of passion and prejudice may be derived, sometimes there may occur during the trial untoward incidents of such extreme and inflammatory nature that the court's admonitions and instructions could not cure or neutralize them.”
2 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.