77 Wash. 2d 306 - Wilbour v. Gallagher’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably 109 Wash. 2d 621 - Orion Corporation v. State (1987), 82 Wash. 2d 475 - Eastlake Community Council v. Roanoke Associates, Inc. (1973)
38 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 O'Connell v. Chicago Terminal Transfer Railroad · Tiffany v. . Town of Oyster Bay · Diana Shooting Club v. Husting · Village of Pewaukee v. Savoy · Stewart v. . Turney
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“of navigation, together with its incidental rights of fishing, boating, swimming, water skiing, and other related recreational purposes generally regarded as corollary to the right of navigation and the use of public waters.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“"to the perpetual right to raise the waters of Lake Chelan, Washington to the elevation of eleven Hundred (1100) feet above mean sea level, and to perpetually inundate and overflow [said property] to said elevation of eleven hundred (1100) feet above mean sea level."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the public has the right to go where the navigable waters go, even though the navigable waters lie over privately owned lands.”
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.