49 Wash. 2d 275 - Morin v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently March 2013 · most notably 87 Wash. 2d 6 - Highline School District No. 401 v. Port of Seattle (1976), 99 Wash. 2d 772 - Chemical Bank v. Washington Public Power Supply System (1983)
47 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 Matter of 440 E. 102nd St. Corp. v. Murdock · Kubby v. Hammond · Ebur v. Alloy Metal Wire Co. · Conway v. Gampel · Crawford v. Central Steam Laundry
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It must also be remembered that zoning ordinances are in derogation of the common-law right of an owner to use private property so as to realize its highest utility. Such ordinances must be strictly construed in favor of property owners and should not be extended by implication to cases not clearly within their scope and purpose.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]n any doubtful case, the court should give great weight to the contemporaneous construction of an ordinance by the officials charged with its enforcement.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“In a nuisance case, the fundamental inquiry always appears to be whether the use of certain land can be considered as reasonable in relation to all the facts and surrounding circumstances. Application of the doctrine of nuisance requires a balancing of rights, interests, and convenience.”
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.