Frye v. King County’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently June 2014 · most notably Atlantic City Transportation Co. v. Director, Division of Taxation (1953), First National Bank of Seattle v. Mapson (1935)
2 federal appellate · 32 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 Ashford v. Reese · City of Palmetto v. Katsch · Melin v. Community Consolidated School District No. 76 · East Birmingham Realty Co. v. Birmingham Machine & Foundry Co. · City of Florence v. Florence Land & Lumber 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The intention of the owner is the very essence of every dedication.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The first essential of a dedication is the intention of the owner of the land to dedicate it, and such intention is usually shown by the plat. The contrary intention cannot be shown by something hidden in the mind of the land owner.””
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.