80 Wash. 2d 642 - Cook v. Cook’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently February 2013
12 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 63 Wash. 2d 150 - Bland v. Mentor · Alexander v. Lewes · Resor v. Schaefer · Swash v. Sharpstein · Supove v. Densmoor Et Ux
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is for the trier of fact to assess the credibility and weight to be attached to the evidence, to measure that evidence in the light of applicable legal requirements and presumptions, and to determine whether the evidence on the point establishes to a high probability that the alleged contract in fact existed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bale v. Allison“, which is at issue here. The ordinary burden of persuasion in civil cases is that the trier of fact must believe that it is more probable than not that the fact in issue is true. Cook , at 646. The more stringent standard of”
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.