Hughes v. State of Washington’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
63 federal appellate · 39 district · 140 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 335 later decisions (32 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2022 · most notably Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council (1992), First English Evangelical Lutheran Church v. County of Los Angeles (1987)
63 federal appellate · 39 district · 140 state decisions — followed in 20 states
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 Chicago Co v. City of Chicago · Shively v. Bowlby · Anderson Nat Bank v. Luckett · Bandy v. United States · State Indiana Anderson v. Brand
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 335 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] State cannot be permitted to defeat the constitutional prohibition against taking property without due process of law by the simple device of asserting retroactively that the property it has taken never existed at all.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“(T)he Constitution measures a taking of property not by what a State says, or by what it intends, but by what it does.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Any other rule would leave riparian owners continually in danger of losing access to water which is often the most valuable feature of their property, and continually vulnerable to harassing litigation challenging the location of the original water lines.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.