Bullard v. Bailey’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently July 2019
8 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 118 Wash. 2d 801 - Cowiche Canyon Conservancy v. Bosley · 103 Wash. 2d 768 - Hartley v. State · 84 Wash. 2d 239 - King v. City of Seattle · 119 Wash. 2d 251 - Hizey v. Carpenter · 97 Wash. 2d 929 - Bernethy v. Walt Failor's, Inc.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under the circumstances presented, particularly McClellan's financial difficulties, unlawful legal practice, and Bailey's failure to correct Bullard's misapprehensions, ordinary human experience should have led Bailey to expect Bullard would suffer some harm at McClellan's hands, regardless whether it was the precise harm suffered.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[The] question of foreseeability "is in no way one of causation, and never arises until causation has been established. It is rather one of the fundamental policy of the law, as to whether the defendant's responsibility should extend to such results."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Instead, it is part of determining whether [a defendant's] aetions are the 'legal cause' of[a plaintiffs] damages.”
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.