75 Wash. 2d 143 - Arnold v. Melani’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently December 2021 · most notably Moore v. State (1976), 102 Wash. 2d 874 - Chemical Bank v. Washington Public Power Supply System (1984)
51 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 Missouri Pacific Railway Co. v. Nebraska · David Wilkinson v. Thomas Leland · Missouri Pac Ry Co v. State of Nebraska Board of Transportation · 28 Wash. 2d 1 - State v. Northwest Magnesite Co. · Golden Press, Inc. v. Rylands
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) The encroacher did not simply take a calculated risk, act in bad faith, or negligently, willfully or indifferently locate the encroaching structure; (2) the damage to the landowner was slight and the benefit of removal equally small; (3) there was ample remaining room for a structure suitable for the area and no real limitation on the property's future use; (4) it is impractical to move the structure as built; and (5) there is an enormous disparity in resulting hardships.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) An admission, statement, or act inconsistent with the claim afterwards asserted; (2) action by the other party on the faith of such admission, statement, or act; and (3) injury to such other party resulting from allowing the first party to contradict or repudiate such admission, statement or act.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“under circumstances permitting diligence”
4 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.