68 Wash. 2d 442 - Roberts v. Goerig’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently August 2010
17 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.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as any highway the roadway[ 3 ] of which is of sufficient width to reasonably accommodate two or more separate lanes of vehicular traffic in the same direction, each lane of which shall be not less than the maximum legal vehicle width and whether or not such lanes are marked. (Italics ours.) Thus, a lane may be legally recognized even if it is on a roadway whose pavement is not marked with a dividing line. RCW 46.04.260, which defines a”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. White v. Solaegui“a highway the roadway of which is divided into clearly marked lanes for vehicular traffic”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. White v. Solaegui“[t]he blacktop, in the absence of signs, looks just like a roadway.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. White v. Solaegui
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.