Phillips v. King County’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently February 2023 · most notably City of Keller v. Wilson (2005), Lakey v. Puget Sound Energy, Inc. (2013)
63 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 Folsom v. Burger King · 115 Wash. 2d 506 - ATHERTON CONDO APARTMENT-OWNERS ASS'N BD OF DIRECTORS v. Blume Dev. Co. · 111 Wash. 2d 159 - Taylor v. Stevens County · 104 Wash. 2d 677 - Bradley v. American Smelting and Refining Co. · 109 Wash. 2d 621 - Orion Corporation v. State
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) a taking or damaging (2) of private property (3) for public use (4) without just compensation being paid (5) by a governmental entity that has not instituted formal proceedings.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[n]o private property shall be taken or damaged for public or private use without just compensation having been first made.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“`To have a taking, some governmental activity must have been the direct or proximate cause of the landowner's loss.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.