105 Wash. 2d 366 - Brown v. Voss’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably 125 Wash. 2d 500 - King v. Riveland (1994), 107 Wash. 2d 444 - Lawson v. State (1986)
51 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 54 Wash. 2d 570 - Thorndike v. Hesperian Orchards, Inc. · 156 Ind. App. 203 - Selvia v. Reitmeyer · 52 Wash. 2d 317 - Port of Seattle v. International Longshoremen's & Warehousemen's Union · 99 Wash. 2d 878 - Washington Federation of State Employees v. State · 73 Ill. App. 2d 454 - Wetmore v. Ladies of Loretto, Wheaton
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As a general rule, an easement appurtenant to one parcel of land may not be extended by the owner of the dominant estate to other parcels owned by him, whether adjoining or distinct tracts, to which the easement is not appurtenant.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“granting or withholding of an injunction is addressed to the sound discretion of the trial court to be exercised according to the circumstances of each case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the extent of the right acquired is to be determined from the terms of the grant properly construed to give effect to the intention of the parties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Visser v. Craig
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.