Reed v. Wellman’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 2019
10 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 Spencer's Appeal From Railroad Commissioners · Schields v. Horbach · Watkins v. Bugge · Ross v. McManigal · Perkins v. Potts
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“With these principles in view, it seems that the word "shall" should be construed as permissive rather than mandatory, which will effectuate the intention of the [L]egislature to provide by agreement of the parties a prompt and inexpensive method of determining disputed boundaries, without interference with the common law and constitutional right of the citizen to appeal to the courts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“provide a condition precedent to the presentation of the dispute to the courts of the state”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.