5 Wash. App. 169 - Wilson v. Howard’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently October 2003
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 Borax Consolidated, Ltd. v. Los Angeles · Hughes v. State of Washington · Port of Seattle v. Oregon & Washington Railroad · Dawson v. Town of Orange · People ex rel. Teschemacher v. Davidson
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.
“the line of mean high tide determined as nearly as possible by calculating the average height of all high tides at that location over the ... tidal cycle.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Larson v. Nelson
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.