Methonen v. Stone’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently November 2022
8 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 Boyd v. United States · 102 Wash. 2d 170 - Miebach v. Colasurdo · Wing v. Forest Lawn Cemetery Assn. · Sea Lion Corp. v. Air Logistics of Alaska, Inc. · Sanborn v. McLean
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well established that a purchaser will be charged with notice of an interest adverse to his title when he is aware of facts which would lead a reasonably prudent person to a course of investigation which, properly executed, would lead to knowledge of the servitude.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“... Stone and Talmage have raised genuine issues of material fact as to two separate potential grounds for establishing an easement . inquiry notice and implied easement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“constructive notice of all the facts which he might have learned by means of a due and reasonable inquiry,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gottstein v. Kraft
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.