Halverson v. Skagit County’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 2012
8 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 Kincaid v. City of Seattle · Cass v. Dicks · Phillips v. King County · 99 Wash. 2d 645 - Paulson v. County of Pierce · Bodin v. City of Stanwood
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[t]he chief characteristic of surface water is its inability to maintain its identity and existence as a body of water.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“in the lawful exercise of his right to control, manage or improve his own land, finds it necessary to protect it from surface water flowing from higher land, he may do so, and if damage thereby results to another, it is damnum absque injuria [injury without redress].”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“(a) acts in accordance with an agreement with another to cooperate in a particular course of conduct, or to accomplish a particular result, or pursuant to a common design with another. The agreement may be expressed in words or implied from the conduct itself; or (b) knows that the other person's or entity's conduct constitutes a taking or damaging and gives substantial assistance or encouragement to the other to so conduct itself; or (c) gives substantial assistance to the other person or entity in accomplishing a taking or damaging and its own conduct, separately considered, constitutes a taking or damaging to any plaintiff.”
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.