Muir v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently January 1973
2 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 Eisenbach v. Hatfield · Van Siclen v. Muir · West Coast Improvement Co. v. Winsor
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As early as the case of Eisenbach v. Hatfield, 2 Wash. 236 , 26 Pac. 539 , 12 L. R. A. 632, this court held that the owner of uplands bordering on navigable waters as such had no riparian or littoral rights in such waters as would enable him to maintain an injunction from interference therewith. This holding was based on the ground that between the boundary of the upland and the navigable waters proper there were shore lands which belonged to the state and to which all riparian and littoral rights attached. . . .” Muir v. Johnson, supra.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sturtevant
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.