Rogers v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 2003
15 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 Fitzgerald v. Valdez · Stephens v. Dulaney · McKeough v. Ryan · 76 Wash. 2d 59 - In Re Estate of Barr · Gardner v. Morrison
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There was in force in the State at the time of the occurrence in question a certain statute which provided that: “ ‘40A-7-3. Negligent use of a tveapon. — Negligent use of a weapon consists of: “ ‘A. unlawfully discharging a firearm in the proximity of a building, or into any building or vehicle so as to knowingly endanger a person or his property ; “ < * * * “ ‘C. endangering the safety of another or his property by handling or using a firearm or othr [sic] deadly weapon in a negligent manner. * * “If you find from the evidence that the Defendant conducted himself in violation of this statute, you are instructed that such conduct constituted negligence as a matter of law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. LaBarge v. Stewart
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.