10 Wash. App. 746 - Sisson v. Koelle’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently November 2021
5 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 Skansi v. Novak · Gustaveson v. Dwyer · 61 Wash. 2d 509 - Commercial Waterway District No. 1 v. Permanente Cement Co. · 71 Wash. 2d 60 - Butler v. Anderson · 70 Wash. 2d 504 - Goedecke v. Viking Investment Corp.
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.
“if land is held by a governmental body in its proprietary, as opposed to governmental capacity, the land is subject to being acquired by adverse possession the same as if owned by a private individual. Commercial Waterway Dist. 1 v. Permanente Cement Co., [supra at 512].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“never devoted to any use, public or otherwise . . . [the land] was held in a proprietary capacity and subject to adverse possession the same as if owned by a private individual.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'abandoned and forgotten about and had done nothing to sustain any title, or ownership, or control, of the land in question.”
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.