The Quest for the Best Test to Vest: Washington's Vested Rights Doctrine Beats the Rest
Overstreet, Gregory & Kirchheim, Diana M.
Citation analytics
How this journal article sits in the citation network, derived from CiteLaw's graph of published opinions.
Citations by decade
Courts citing this journal article
Most recently cited by2
- 2026Worthwhile Wind, LLC v. Worth County Board of Supervisors Iowa
- 2008Gizmo Realty/VKR Assoc., LLC Act 250 Permit Vt. Super. Ct.
Counts reflect decisions in the CiteLaw corpus and may lag very recent opinions.
Abstract
This Article is primarily a comprehensive, practitioner-oriented analysis of Washington's vested rights doctrine. In this Article, the authors propose that there are actually three models for vested rights in the nation, the majority and minority rules and the Washington rule. In the 1950s, Washington began following what commentators usually refer to as the minority rule, but the authors of this article assert that over the years our state's vesting doctrine has evolved into a distinct, third model. As this article will show, the Washington rule is not only distinct, it is superior.