92 Wash. 2d 246 - Gates v. Jensen’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably 98 Wash. 2d 460 - Harbeson v. Parke-Davis, Inc. (1983), 100 Wash. 2d 26 - Smith v. Shannon (1983)
5 federal appellate · 32 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 Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Behymer · New England Coal & Coke Co. v. Northern Barge Corporation · 72 Wash. 2d 73 - Pederson v. Dumouchel · 83 Wash. 2d 514 - Helling v. Carey · 73 Wash. 2d 796 - Hayes v. Hulswit
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]s a matter of law . . . the reasonable standard that should have been followed under the undisputed facts of this case was the timely giving of this simple, harmless pressure test to this plaintiff and that, in failing to do so, the defendants were negligent. . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“degree of skill, care and learning possessed by other persons in the same profession”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“reasonable prudence under the circumstances”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.