Doty v. Railroad’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently March 1997
3 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.
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In these eases there was a covenant or agreement (so far as it was absolute and not optional) to do a certain specified thing — as, to build a house or wall or pay for improvements. There was no continuing and daily accruing consideration or agreement on either side, there was no continuing obligation on either, as in this case____[Here,] [t]he land is burdened by the easement. This can only be offset by the benefit to the servient estate, and this is a continuing burden and benefit.”
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.