107 Wash. 2d 444 - Lawson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 117 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2018 · most notably Preseault v. Interstate Commerce Commission (1990), 109 Wash. 2d 107 - Haberman v. Washington Public Power Supply System (1988)
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 67 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
Applies 49 U.S.C. § 10906
Relies on Ruckelshaus v. Monsanto Co. · Lynch v. United States · Chase Securities Corp. v. Donaldson · Hudson v. Palmer · Hayfield Northern Railroad v. Chicago & North Western Transportation Co.
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 117 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`it appears beyond doubt that the plaintiff can prove no set of facts, consistent with the complaint, which would entitle the plaintiff to relief.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“the right of way would automatically revert to the reversionary interest holders.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“public highway[s], created for public purposes.”
3 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.