70 Wash. App. 270 - Sorenson v. Czinger’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently April 2024
14 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 State ex rel. Carlson v. Superior Court · 40 Wash. App. 433 - Daviscourt v. Peistrup · 97 Wash. 2d 360 - Brown v. McAnally · Wiese v. Thien · State ex rel. Stephens v. Superior Court
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If it is determined that an owner, or one entitled to the beneficial use of land, is entitled to a private way of necessity and it is determined that there is more than one possible route for the private way of necessity, the selection of the route shall be guided by the following priorities in the following order: (1) Nonagricultural and nonsilvicultural land shall be used if possible. (2) The least-productive land shall be used if it is necessary to cross agricultural land. (3) The relative benefits and burdens of the various possible routes shall be weighed to establish an equitable balance between the benefits to the land for which the private way of necessity is sought and the burdens to the land over which the private way of necessity is to run.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“An owner, or one entitled to the beneficial use, of land which is so situate with respect to the land of another that it is necessary for its proper use and enjoyment to have and maintain a private way of necessity or to construct or maintain any drain, flume or ditch, on, across, over or through the land of such other, for agricultural, domestic or sanitary purposes, may condemn and take lands of such other sufficient in area for the construction and maintenance of such private way of necessity, or for the construction and maintenance of such drain, flume or ditch, as the case may be.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Nevertheless, evidence showing an alternative route would require the condemnation of property whose owners were not parties to the proceeding was held sufficient to show the necessity for the route selected by condemnor in [ Wheeler, 154 Wash. 117 ]; see [ Stephens, 111 Wash. at 209 , [ 190 P. 234 ]] (questioning whether an alternative route over the property of nonparties could be considered by the court).”
2 later decisions 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.