26 Wash. App. 134 - Knudsen v. Patton’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently July 2019
20 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 77 Wash. 2d 616 - Maynard Inv. Co., Inc. v. McCann · 42 Wash. 2d 129 - Bowman v. Webster · 9 Wash. 2d 703 - Watkins v. Siler Logging Co. · 10 Wash. 2d 186 - Dexter Horton Building Co. v. King County · 2 Wash. App. 126 - Scavenius v. Manchester Port District
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The essence of a dedication is that it is for the use of the public at large. There may be a dedication for special uses, but it must be for the benefit of the public. There can be no dedication to private uses or for a purpose bearing an interest or profit in the land____”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Coward v. Hadley“It will be sufficient if the findings of fact and conclusions of law are stated orally and recorded in open court following the close of the evidence or appear in an opinion or memorandum of decision filed by the court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“what questions were decided by the trial court and the theory upon which each was decided.”
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.