83 Wash. 2d 86 - Lyons v. Redding Construction Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently January 1997 · most notably Anderson v. Ceccardi (1983), Rutter v. Northeastern Beaver County School District (1981)
6 federal appellate · 49 state decisions — followed in 16 states
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 Tiller v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad · Columbia Co v. Hawthorne · Meistrich v. Casino Arena Attractions, Inc. · Tuttle v. Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee Railway · Williamson v. Smith
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"... Adoption of the standard of comparative negligence is necessarily accompanied by a more flexible weighing of the relative fault attributable to each party. A concomitant effect of this more delicate apportionment of damages will be the elimination of the need for the assumption of the risk doctrine. Thus, the calculus of balancing the relative measurements of fault inevitably incorporates the degree to which the plaintiff assumed the risk. Accordingly, it has been held the effect of the comparative negligence standard shall be to completely abrogate the assumption of risk doctrine as known and applied heretofore." 515 P.2d at 826 .”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Contributory negligence shall not bar recovery in an action by any person or his legal representative to recover damages caused by negligence resulting in death or in injury to person or property, but any damages allowed shall be diminished in proportion to the percentage of negligence attributable to the party recovering.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“bearing the `human overhead' which is an inevitable part of the cost to someone of the doing of industrialized business.”
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.