Neel v. King County’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently April 2002
18 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 Wakeham v. Township of St. Clair · Moran v. Inhabitants of Palmer · Prather v. City of Spokane · Watson v. Proprietors of Lisbon Bridge · Aston v. City of Newton
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . that the county ought to be estopped from denying responsibility where it had issued an invitation to the public to travel on the location adjacent to a county road as a part of the road, and where the road was in such position topographically as to mislead the public, there being no defined boundary between the road and that territory which the public had been invited to travel upon as a part of the road.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`[i]t is the duty of the county ... to maintain its public highways and roads in a reasonably safe condition for public travel'”
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.