Smith v. King County’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently August 1998
16 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 City of Corsicana v. Zorn · Murphy v. King County · Humphrey v. Krutz · Hagen v. Mills · Field v. Village of Manchester
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A dedication of land to the use of the public, whether express or implied, may be revoked at any time before it has been accepted. Norfolk v. Nottingham, supra. It has also been held, and upon sound ground, that a conveyance of an unaccepted street or highway revokes the dedication. Minneapolis & St. L. R. Co. v. Town of Britt, 105 Iowa 198 , 74 N. W. 933 ; Clendenin v. Maryland Const. Co., 86 Md. 80 , 37 Atl. 709 ; 9 Am. & Eng. Ency. Law (2d ed.), 78. It may also be revoked by applying the highway to any permanent use inconsistent with the purpose of the dedication. Trerice v. Barteau, 54 Wis. 99 , 11 N. W. 244 ; Lee v. Eake, 14 Mich. 11 ; Field v. Village of Manchester, 32 Mich. 279 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The purchasers are not parties to this litigation and their rights cannot be affected by the result. Their rights, if any, depend upon the doctrine of estoppel. Moreover, they or their successors in title may have since compromised or lost the right so acquired. These questions we are not called upon to consider or decide. The estoppel, if any, operates only in favor of those who have been misled to their injury, and they alone can set it up.””
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.