85 Wash. 2d 64 - State v. Brannan’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently February 2006
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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 4321 (§ 2 of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969)
Relies on 84 Wash. 2d 271 - Leschi Improvement Council v. Washington State Highway Commission · The Indian Lookout Alliance v. John A. Volpe, as Secretary of Transportation · 65 Wash. 2d 677 - City of Tacoma v. Welcker · 66 Wash. 2d 378 - Deaconess Hospital v. Washington State Highway Commission · 60 Wash. 2d 151 - Long v. Odell
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.
“[w]hen it comes to such discretionary details as the particular land chosen, the amount of land needed, or the kinds of legal interests in that land that are necessary for the project, many Washington decisions have said that the condemnor's judgment on these matters will be overturned only if there is "proof of actual fraud or such arbitrary and capricious conduct as would amount to constructive fraud."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Seldom has this court found that a condemning authority has abused its trust in making a declaration of public necessity. This should not be surprising, for it is not to be presumed that such abuses often occur.”
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.