47 Wash. 2d 29 - McInnes v. Kennell’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently September 2015
9 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 Whitmore v. Gilley
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A mandatory injunction is a harsh remedy, and courts of equity will not resort to it unless the right thereto is clear. Rights of adjoining landowners in the use and enjoyment of their property are relative, but they are also equal. Equity cannot restrict one landowner to confer a benefit on the other. It is only when an unreasonable or unlawful use of land by one property owner infringes upon some right of another in the reasonable use and enjoyment of his land that equity will intervene.”
2 later decisions 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.