81 Wash. 2d 367 - Balmer v. Dilley’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2011 · most notably Miles v. Apex Marine Corp. (1990), 114 Ill. 2d 107 - Ballweg v. City of Springfield (1986)
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 16 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 Hudson v. Lazarus · 81 Wash. 2d 327 - Hinzman v. Palmanteer · 77 Wash. 2d 178 - Warner v. McCaughan · Czarecki v. Seattle & San Francisco Railway & Navigation Co. · 16 Wash. 2d 226 - White v. Fenner
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"(1) All causes of action by a person or persons against another person or persons shall survive to the personal representatives of the former and against the personal representatives of the latter, whether such actions arise on contract or otherwise”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“damages for loss of future earnings during his normal life expectancy, discounted to present worth, with such other adjustments as the facts may require.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“all causes of action of a deceased survive . . . which include all elements of damage except those enumerated in the proviso of the statute”
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.