46 Wash. App. 409 - Roy v. Cunningham’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably 196 W. Va. 559 - Brown v. Gobble (1996), 88 Wash. App. 306 - Lilly v. Lynch (1997)
27 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 65 Wash. 2d 157 - Calbom v. Knudtzon · 100 Wash. 2d 853 - Chaplin v. Sanders · 103 Wash. 2d 800 - Sea-Pac Co. v. United Food & Commercial Workers Local Union 44 · Michelsen v. Gilbert · 75 Wash. 2d 143 - Arnold v. Melani
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) an admission, statement, or act inconsistent with the claim afterward asserted; (2) action by the other party on the faith of such admission, statement, or act; and (3) injury resulting from allowing the first party to contradict or repudiate [such admission, statement, or act].”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he Roys[, who claimed title by adverse possession,] did not deem a lawsuit necessary until [three years after threatening a lawsuit]. Bearing in mind the period of time during which a person may legally bring a lawsuit after a cause of action arises regarding real property, failure to sue immediately after an assertion of a possessory interest in land does not amount to a representation that a claim has been abandoned. Moreover, the Meyerses’ subsequent improvements and conveyances despite actual notice of the Roys’ claim were undertaken without the requisite “right to rely”. Estoppel was therefore not established.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Where there is privity between successive occupants holding continuously and adversely to the true title holder, the successive periods of occupation may be tacked to each other to compute the required 10-year period of adverse holding.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Draszt v. Naccarato
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.