Shellhouse v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently March 1973 · most notably Speir v. . Town of New Utrecht (1890), Nowlin v. Whipple (1889)
58 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 City of Indianapolis v. Kingsbury · City of San Francisco v. Canavan · Tucker v. Conrad · Illinois Insurance v. Littlefield · Mansur 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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When the use is interrupted, prescription is annihilated and must begin again, ... A highway, from its very nature, must be open to the public for use day and night, and any unambiguous act by the owner, such as erecting gates or bars over the highway, which evinces his intention to exclude the public from the uninterrupted use of the highway, destroys the prescriptive right, unless it had fully matured before it was interrupted.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Megrath v. Nickerson
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.