83 Wash. 2d 599 - Cook v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently October 2014 · most notably 85 Wash. 2d 810 - Hunter v. North Mason School Dist. (1975), 84 Wash. 2d 959 - Godfrey v. Washington (1975)
38 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 Nebbia v. People of State of New York · 55 Cal. 2d 211 - Muskopf v. Corning Hospital District · Evangelical United Brethren Church v. State · Reich v. State Highway Department · Riddoch v. State
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The possibility that a friend or relative may possess the foresight to file a timely claim on behalf of an incapacitated victim, in our view, provides too slender a reed to bridge the inherent discrimination, and it becomes arbitrary and unreasonable when it penalizes the incapacitated if a friend or relative through inadvertence or ignorance fails to act.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]t would be almost as unconscionable to require that [the plaintiff's] allegedly unlettered mother, stricken with the death of one child and greatly concerned over the survival of a second, ferret out the facts of the accident, the law pertaining to potential liability and the filing requirements, and thereupon file a claim as [the plaintiff's] representative or solicit the aid of another to do so during the course of [the plaintiff's] first 4 months in the hospital.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`This state has by its Constitution (art. II, § 26) empowered the Legislature to direct by law in what manner and in what courts suits may be brought against it ....'”
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.