Hall v. McDowell’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
3 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 16 U.S.C. § 480
Relies on 72 Wash. 2d 93 - Niven v. MacDonald · 1 Wash. App. 935 - Hurst v. Struthers · 3 Wash. App. 673 - McGlothlin v. Cole · 1 Wash. App. 759 - Goldfarb v. Wright · 6 Wash. App. 660 - Hardtke v. Schanz
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.
“Although there are commercial restrictions upon its use, it is used by the public for access to Merrill Lake and certain portions of the Gifford Pinchot National Forest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“open as a matter of right to public vehicular 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.