94 Wash. 2d 146 - Bixler v. Bowman’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently November 2016 · most notably 154 Ill. 2d 398 - Cunningham v. Huffman (1993), 97 Wash. 2d 880 - Glass v. Stahl Specialty Company (1982)
26 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 75 Wash. 2d 660 - Ruth v. Dight · 161 Cal. App. 2d 800 - Hundley v. St. Francis Hospital · 125 Cal. App. 2d 399 - Myers v. Stevenson · 45 Wash. 2d 675 - Lindquist v. Mullen · 75 Wash. 2d 894 - Samuelson v. Freeman
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) A person licensed by this state to provide health care or related services, including, but not limited to, a physician .... (3) . . . based upon alleged professional negligence shall be commenced within three years ....”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“The 1971 statute was significantly different from the previous statute of limitations and our interpretation of that statute. The concept of the accrual of a cause of action contained in the general statute of limitations was eliminated. In its place is language that any action shall commence within 1 year of the time plaintiff discovers the injury or condition was caused by the wrongful act.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[RCW 4.16.350] substantially modified the continuing course of treatment rule formulated in Samuelson .... Under Samuelson , the cause of action would not accrue until, when there was a continuous and substantially uninterrupted course of treatment for a particular illness, the treatment for the particular illness or condition had been terminated. The 1971 statute restricts the commencement of the action to within “three years from the date of the alleged wrongful act.”____The concept of the termination of a “continuing course of treatment” has been succeeded by the designation of a “date of the alleged wrongful act”.”
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.