95 Wash. App. 71 - Wolfe v. BENNETT PS & E, INC.’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 98 Wash. 2d 434 - Wilson v. Steinbach · 112 Wash. 2d 216 - Young v. Key Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · 84 Wash. 2d 239 - King v. City of Seattle · 111 Wash. 2d 159 - Taylor v. Stevens County · 100 Wash. 2d 275 - Chambers-Castanes v. King County
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must decide based on traditional principles of proximate causation whether or not a defendant was the cause of the injuries suffered and whether the duty to mitigate was met.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Laymon v. DNR“[g]overnments enact building codes, zoning ordinances, and other land use regulations to protect the health and welfare of the general public,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Legal causation rests on policy considerations determining how far the consequences of a defendant's acts should extend.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Laymon v. DNR
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.