32 Wash. 2d 613 - Burkhard v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 2006
14 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 Murphy v. King County · Van Buren v. Trumbull · Tamblin v. Crowley · Smith v. King County · Carroll v. Centralia Water 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any county road, or part thereof, which had heretofore been or may hereafter be authorized, which remains unopened for public use for the space of five years after the order is made or authority is granted for opening the same, shall be and the same is hereby vacated, and the authority for building the same barred by lapse of time.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[S]ince the dedicator of a plat could not defeat a grantee's right to an easement in the street upon which his land abuts, common grantees from him cannot, as among themselves, question the right of ingress and egress over the street as shown on the plat.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]f the common grantor could not deny the full effect of his deed and the right of ingress and egress, his grantee could not do so.”
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.