46 Wash. 2d 574 - Gray v. McDonald’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently June 2001
11 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 James v. Cannell · Donahue v. Johnson · Schultz v. Wells Butchers' Supply Co. · Mann v. Becker · Catarau v. Sunde & D'Evers 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The trial court further found that plaintiffs and defendants had tried the cause upon its merits, and that, therefore, reasonable attorneys’ fees were not allowable as an element of damages. The main issue was whether or not an easement by prescription had been established. The injunctive relief prayed for was only ancillary thereto. Annotation, 164 A.L.R. 1090 ; Donahue v. Johnson, 9 Wash. 187,191 , 37 Pac. 322 (1894); Mann v. Becker, 90 Wash. 534, 538 , 156 Pac. 396 (1916); James v. Cannell, 135 Wash. 80, 83 , 237 Pac. 8 (1925).”
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.