Fredrickson v. Bertolino's Tacoma, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• affirming a summary judgment granted to a defendant, the court reasoned that the evidence was insufficient to show that the defendant's coffee shop chair, which allegedly broke beneath the plaintiff, posed an unreasonable risk of harm to customers
• declining to extend Washington's mode of operation exception to a collapsed chair incident where plaintiff did not establish, \that the danger of breaking chairs was continuous or foreseeably inherent in the nature of\ defendant's business
• jury must decide whether a \defective condition existed long enough so that it would have been discovered by an owner exercising reasonable care\
• jury must decide whether a “defective condition existed long enough so that it would have been discovered by an owner exercising reasonable care”
• summary judgment appropriate where plaintiff did not know what was wrong with chair or caused it to collapse
• “Ordinarily, it is a question of fact for the jury whether, under all of the circumstances, a defective condition existed long enough so that it would have been discovered by an owner exercising reasonable care.”

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Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Price v. Kroger Co. of Michigan
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 2009-06-18· cited 51×
• Tavai v. Walmart Stores, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2013-08-13· cited 26×
• Charlton v. Toys \R\ Us - Delaware, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2010-11-04· cited 12×
• Curtis v. Lein
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2009-05-11· cited 6×
• Pamela O'neill, V The City Of Port Orchard
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2016-06-28· cited 3×
• Bradley v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
  Ninth Circuit· 2009-06-16· cited 2×
• Fredrickson v. Bertolino's Tacoma, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2006-01-24· cited 1×
• Charlton v. TOYS\ R\ US-DELAWARE, INC.
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2010-12-16· cited 1×
• Avrilirene And Thomas Tavai, V Wal-mart Stores, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2013-08-13
• Fredrickson v. Bertolino's Tacoma, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2005-12-13
• Trujillo v. Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
  W.D. Washington· 2018-12-19
• Dahlager v. Jack's Diving Locker
  Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals· 2023-06-26

Cites

18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Wilson v. Steinbach
  Washington Supreme Court· 1982-12-29· cited 937×
• Tincani v. Inland Empire Zoological Society
  Washington Supreme Court· 1994-06-16· cited 247×
• Pedroza v. Bryant
  Washington Supreme Court· 1984-02-16· cited 194×
• Iwai v. State
  Washington Supreme Court· 1996-05-09· cited 123×
• Davidson v. Hensen
  Washington Supreme Court· 1998-05-07· cited 111×
• Pimentel v. Roundup Company
  Washington Supreme Court· 1983-06-30· cited 107×
• Ciminski v. Finn Corp.
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1975-07-02· cited 81×
• Retired Public Employees Council v. Charles
  Washington Supreme Court· 2003-01-30· cited 77×
• Younce v. Ferguson
  Washington Supreme Court· 1986-09-11· cited 75×
• Wiltse v. Albertson's Inc.
  Washington Supreme Court· 1991-02-28· cited 56×
• W.R. Grace & Co. v. Department of Revenue
  Washington Supreme Court· 1999-04-01· cited 54×
• Roy Supply, Inc. v. Wells Fargo Bank
  California Court of Appeal· 1995-10-26· cited 44×
• Wagg v. Estate of Dunham
  Washington Supreme Court· 2002-03-28· cited 42×
• Brant v. Market Basket Stores, Inc.
  Washington Supreme Court· 1967-11-09· cited 37×
• Carlyle v. Safeway Stores, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1995-06-27· cited 29×
• Coleman v. Ernst Home Center, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1993-06-07· cited 22×
• O'Donnell v. Zupan Enterprises, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2001-08-10· cited 22×
• Morton v. Lee
  Washington Supreme Court· 1969-02-20· cited 17×

Other cases named Fredrickson v. Bertolino's Tacoma, Inc.

3 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• Fredrickson v. Bertolino's Tacoma, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2006-01-24· cited 1×
• Fredrickson v. BERTOLINO'S TACOMA, INC.
  Washington Supreme Court· 2006-09-07
• Fredrickson v. Bertolino's Tacoma, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2005-12-13