100 Wash. 2d 853 - Chaplin v. Sanders’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 111 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 115 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably 113 Wash. 2d 869 - Boeing Co. v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. (1990), 71 Wash. App. 194 - Denny's Restaurants, Inc. v. Security Union Title Insurance (1993)
2 federal appellate · 111 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 · 93 Wash. 2d 766 - Peeples v. Port of Bellingham · 7 Wash. App. 139 - Diel v. Beekman · 96 Wash. 2d 255 - In Re the Marriage of Johnson · 3 Wash. App. 393 - Howard v. Kunto
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 115 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“requires only that the claimant treat the land as his own as against the world throughout the statutory period.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage“A claimant can satisfy the open and notorious element by showing either (1) that the title owner had actual notice of the adverse use throughout the statutory period or (2) that the claimant used the land such that any reasonable person would have thought he owned it.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Hostility ... `does not import enmity or ill-will, but rather imports that the claimant is in possession as owner, in contradistinction to holding in recognition of or subordination to the true owner.'”
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.