43 Wash. App. 747 - Lowery v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently October 2011
10 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
Applies 21 U.S.C. § 881 (§ 511 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on One 1958 Plymouth Sedan v. Pennsylvania · Tisdale v. United States · United States v. Pappas · United States v. One Mercedes Benz Four-Door Sedan Vin: 116-036-12-004084 S · 105 Wash. 2d 302 - Hontz v. State
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““These courts have concluded that government’s right to seize and forfeit a vehicle vests at the time of the illegal conduct. That right may be executed later by physical seizure of the vehicle, so no warrant is required to perfect the forfeiture. The same reasoning applies to the Washington forfeiture statute * * * )}”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Attorneys’ fees as costs in damage actions of ten thousand dollars or less—When defendant deemed prevailing party. The defendant, or party resisting relief, shall be deemed the prevailing party within the meaning of RCW 4.84.250, if the plaintiff, or party seeking relief in an action for damages where the amount pleaded, exclusive of costs, is equal to or less than the maximum allowed under RCW 4.84.250, recovers nothing, or if the recovery, exclusive of costs, is the same or less than the amount offered in settlement by the defendant, or the party resisting relief, as set forth in RCW 4.84.280.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(4) The board inspector or law enforcement officer has probable cause to believe that the property was used or is intended to be used in violation of this chapter.”
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.