84 Wash. App. 531 - Patterson v. Horton’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently May 2019
3 federal appellate · 17 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 Love v. United States · Hill v. Lockhart · 117 Wash. 2d 829 - State v. Lord · 124 Wash. 2d 816 - Berschauer/Phillips Construction Co. v. Seattle School District No. 1 · 119 Wash. 2d 34 - Robinson v. City of Seattle
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“may recover only the reasonable value of medical services received, not the total of all bills paid.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[H]ad Patterson given timely notice pursuant to ER 904, she would have eliminated the need to call a witness to authenticate the records. ( citing Miller v. Arctic Alaska Fisheries Corp., 83 Wash.App. 255, 261 , 921 P.2d 585 (1996)).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In other words, medical records and bills are relevant to prove past medical expenses only if supported by additional evidence that the treatment and the bills were both necessary and reasonable.”
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.