Moose v. . Carson’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
1 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently June 1953 · most notably Price v. Stratton (1903), Kray v. Muggli (1901)
1 district · 23 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When by laying off streets, third parties have been induced to buy lots adjacent to them and build on the lots, by an individual grantor, the dedication to the public use has been held irrevocable, although the streets may not have been formally accepted by the authorities of a town in which they lie. Grogan v. Town of Hayward , 4 Fed. Rep., 161.”
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.