Crisman v. Crisman’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably State v. Hairston (1997), Mayer v. City of Seattle (2000)
29 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 114 Wash. 2d 907 - Industrial Indem. Co. of Northwest, Inc. v. Kallevig · Stiley v. Block · 118 Wash. 2d 753 - Allen v. State · 75 Wash. 2d 660 - Ruth v. Dight · 86 Wash. 2d 215 - Gazija v. Nicholas Jerns Co.
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he discovery rule operates to toll the date of accrual until the plaintiff knows or, through the exercise of due diligence, should have known all the facts necessary to establish a legal claim.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“This rule [the discovery rule] is a court doctrine designed to balance the policies underlying statutes of limitations against the unfairness of cutting off a valid claim where the plaintiff, due to no fault of her own, could not reasonably have discovered the claim’s factual elements until some time after the date of the injury. Courts apply the discovery rule to two categories of cases. Traditionally, the rule has been applied in cases where the defendant fraudulently conceals a material fact from the plaintiff and thereby deprives the plaintiff of the knowledge of accrual of the cause of action .... The second category of cases does not depend upon evidence of fraudulent concealment. Rather, courts apply the doctrine where the nature of the plaintiff’s injury makes it extremely difficult, if not impossible, for the plaintiff to learn the factual elements of the cause of action within the specified limitation period.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“When plaintiffs sleep on their rights, evidence may be lost and witnesses' memories may fade.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Huff v. Roach
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.