85 Wash. 2d 597 - Moen v. Hanson’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
2 district · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently November 2016 · most notably Summerfield v. Superior Court, Maricopa Cty. (1985), Nealis v. Baird (1999)
2 district · 54 state decisions — followed in 14 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 Woods v. Lancet · Verkennes v. Corniea · 109 Ohio App. 431 - Stidam v. Ashmore · 55 Ill. 2d 368 - Chrisafogeorgis v. Brandenberg · Libbee v. Permanente Clinic
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In such an action, in addition to damages for medical, hospital, medication expenses, and loss of services and support, damages may be recovered for the loss of love and companionship of the child and for injury to or destruction of the parent-child relationship in such amount as, under all the circumstances of the case, may be just.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[Nlo lower age limitation is implied by the term ['minor child'], because none is necessary; an unborn viable child traditionally has legal existence, personality and rights, and is easily considered within the 'minor child' definition.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“in RCW 4.24.010 makes clear the compatibility of the two statutes. Moen , at 599. Moen was construing that portion of RCW 4.24.010 which authorizes an action for the wrongful death of a”
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.