83 Wash. 2d 491 - Morris v. McNicol’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
165 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 165 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably 98 Wash. 2d 434 - Wilson v. Steinbach (1982), Folsom v. Burger King (1998)
165 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 62 Wash. 2d 195 - Balise v. Underwood · 81 Wash. 2d 528 - Yakima Fruit & Cold Storage Co. v. Central Heating & Plumbing Co. · 71 Wash. 2d 874 - Meadows v. Grant's Auto Brokers, Inc. · 81 Wash. 2d 140 - Barber v. Bankers Life & Casualty Co. · 69 Wash. 2d 949 - Meissner v. Simpson Timber Co.
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 165 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if the pleadings, depositions, answers to interrogatories, and admissions on file, together with the affidavits, if any, show that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that the moving party is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage“A material fact is one upon which the outcome of the litigation depends in whole or in part.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]his doctrine applies only if the upland landowner's use is reasonable.”
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.